Something baa-d happened to Hugh Jackman in the new trailer for The Sheep Detectives
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Ok, maybe the headline was a bad sheep joke, but Amazon MGM Studios also calls this Hugh Jackman film a “Hugh-dunnit.” Ok, maybe that’s better. Puns aside, the very silly and unique family film of The Sheep Detectives now has a new trailer for your viewing pleasure. While the premise is incredibly cutesy and goofy, there is a list of impressive names in the cast who join Jackman, including Nicholas Braun, Nicholas Galitzine, Molly Gordon, with Hong Chau and Emma Thompson. Meanwhile, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Chris O’Dowd, Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, Bella Ramsey, Brett Goldstein and Rhys Darby will provide the voices of the sheep.
Three Bags Full
The official synopsis reads,
“In this witty, new breed of mystery, George (Hugh Jackman) is a shepherd who reads detective novels to his beloved sheep every night, assuming they can’t possibly understand. But when a mysterious incident disrupts life on the farm, the sheep realize they must become the detectives. As they follow the clues and investigate human suspects, they prove that even sheep can be brilliant crime-solvers.”
Kyle Balda (Minions: The Rise of Gru) directs the live-action comedy which has been scripted by Craig Mazin. While most now know Mazin for his more intense work on The Last of Us and Chernobyl, he got his start writing comedies such as Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, The Hangover Part II, The Hangover Part III, and Identity Thief.
Executive Producers on the project include Sarah-Jane Wright, Amelia Granger, Aditya Sood, Tyson Hesse, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Tim Wellspring.
Based on Leonie Swann’s international bestseller, Three Bags Full, the book follows “a shepherd who loves his sheep and raises them only for their wool. Every night, he reads aloud a murder mystery, pretending his sheep can understand, never suspecting that not only can they understand, but they argue for hours afterwards about whodunnit. When George is found dead under mysterious circumstances, the sheep realize at once that it was a murder and think they know everything about how to go about solving it. The local cop, Tim Derry, on the other hand, has never solved a serious crime in his life, so the sheep conclude they will have to solve it themselves, even if it means leaving their meadow for the first time and facing the fact that the human world isn’t as simple as it appears in books.”
Three Bags Full was Swann’s first novel, originally published in Germany in 2005 under the title Glennkill. It was a huge success, winning numerous awards, including the Glauser Prize for crime fiction in the debut category.
The film will be produced by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title, as well as Lindsay Doran. Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Aditya Sood, and Tim Wellspring will executive produce. The film will be released exclusively in theaters on May 8, 2026.
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