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IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit

IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit

'Wake Up Dead Man' Director Rian Johnson

IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit · Dec 12, 2025 · 41:17

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The writer and director behind the beloved Knives Out mysteries returns to the Filmmaker Toolkit to break down his most personal one yet. Johnson discusses why the central themes of religion proved much harder to work out on the page than the mechanics of the mystery.



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