Rian Johnson - 'Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery' [LIVE]

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In front of an audience at the Newport Beach Film Festival, the writer/director describes his experiences progressing from low-budget ('Brick') to mid-budget ('The Brothers Bloom' and 'Looper') to big-budget ('The Last Jedi') films, directing some of the most celebrated episodes of TV ever ('Breaking Bad') and the origins and appeal of his Benoit Blanc series of murder mysteries, the third and most recent of which will open in theaters on Nov. 26 and then begin streaming on Netflix on Dec. 12. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.7	Good evening, everyone. Thank you for being here. I'll share with our listeners who are obviously not getting the visuals that we are in beautiful Newport Beach and thrilled to be back here
0:49.5	for a conversation tonight with the recipient of this year's festival director award.
0:57.4	This 51-year-old has been described by GQ as one of modern Hollywood's most unpredictable
1:03.2	directors, by the New York Times as a pop culture savant with technique to spare, and by Natasha
1:10.0	Leon as one of our greatest living
1:12.4	autors. And I think we can all agree about that. He has written and directed seven feature
1:18.9	films, 2005's brick, 2008's the Brothers Bloom, 2012's Looper, 2017, Star Wars, The Last
1:26.2	Jedi, 2019's Knives Out,
1:28.9	2002's Glass Onion, and now 2025's Wake Up Dead Man.
1:33.3	He directed three of the greatest episodes of one of the greatest TV shows of all time.
1:39.0	That's, of course, the AMC drama series Breaking Bad.
1:42.5	And he has created and written or directed five episodes of the Peacock Comedy series, Pokerface.
1:50.0	Recently named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world,
1:54.0	he has also won Directors Guild and National Board of Review Awards,
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