Wake Up Dead Man is the third film in Rian Johnson’s famous murder mystery trilogy, Knives Out, and most of it was filmed in the UK.
Everything you need to know about the Wake Up Dead Man filming locations
- The third Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man, is now streaming on Netflix after previously hitting cinemas last month. The blockbuster stars former James Bond actor Daniel Craig, who reprises his role as Detective Benoit Blanc, and The Crown’s Josh O’Connor as Rev. Jud Duplenticy. While the murder mystery movie is set in upstate New York, most of its filming locations were actually in the UK.
- Wake Up Dead Man takes place in the fictional small village of Chimney Rock in upstate New York, with many of the scenes unfolding in the local church, Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude. In reality, much of the filming was carried out in a magnificent Neo-Gothic church in Essex, while the English countryside stood in for the Hudson Valley.
- Last summer, production started in Epping Forest, where the Holy Innocents Church at High Beach was chosen for the exterior shots of the church. Vicar Reverend Jane Yeadon ensured her involvement on set was included in the contract, enabling her to safeguard the historic 19th-century building throughout the shoot.
- Production Designer Rick Heinrichs previously revealed to journalists that it proved “devilishly hard to find a church [in England] that didn’t look at least several centuries too old for a U.S. church”. While Holy Innocents Church fit the bill with its “storybook-like charm”, its interior proved “too small for the job”, meaning this had to be constructed from scratch by the production team.
- Essex wasn’t the only UK filming location used for Wake Up Dead Man, as a property on a Guildford estate in Surrey doubled as Vera Draven’s (Kerry Washington) residence. The Wicks mausoleum and groundskeeper’s cabin were also purpose-built within Surrey’s Winterfold Forest.
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