Rian Johnson takes Glenn Close to church in ‘Wake Up, Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’

The morning after Rian Johnson premiered his latest whodunit “Wake Up, Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery,” he and one of his stars, Glenn Close, were debating billing.

Not among the main cast, which considering all the stars in “Wake Up, Dead Man” — Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, to name a few — would be a headache for any filmmaker to sort. But for an uncredited one: Close’s dog, Pip, who very briefly appears in the movie.

“And he’s got a pain in the butt for an agent,” chuckles Johnson.

In each “Knives Out” movie, Johnson has assembled some of his favorite actors and managed to give nearly all of them a moment to shine. “Wake Up, Dead Man” is no different; there are numerous standout performances.

But one of them, most definitely, is Close’s, whose connections to Johnson’s film run deeper than her Havanese’s cameo.

“When Rian called, it