Move over, Sherlock Holmes. Quit twirling your mustache, Poirot. Hang up your hat, Miss Marple. There’s a new flock of great fictional detectives in town, and they’re not even human. They’re… The Sheep Detectives.
Screenwriter Craig Mazin (The Last of Us) and director Kyle Balda (Minions) adapt Leonie Swann’s novel Three Bags Full in this wooly criminal caper. Hugh Jackman stars as shepherd George, who loves nothing more than reading mystery novels to his sheep. What he doesn’t know is that his sheep fully understand the tales he spins them, hanging onto every word of each whodunnit.
However, the flock soon finds themselves in a mystery of their own when their beloved shepherd is murdered. According to his lawyer (Emma Thompson), he left behind $30 million, a fortune that gives several people in his circle the motive to take him out.
Who will get justice for George? Surely not the bumbling local policeman (Nicholas Braun). Instead, George’s flock takes it upon themselves to use their mystery novel know-how to pin down his killer. How tough can solving a real crime be?
The Sheep Detectives‘ latest trailer teases the chaos that awaits our ovine case-crackers, including a serious tendency to want to bash some cars in. Plus, it gives us a better look at the film’s stacked cast, be they sheep or human. In addition to Jackman, Thompson, and Braun, The Sheep Detectives stars Nicholas Galitzine, Molly Gordon, Hong Chau, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Chris O’Dowd, Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, Bella Ramsey, and Rhys Darby.
The Sheep Detectives hits theaters May 8.
