{"id":356314,"date":"2025-12-18T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/356314\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:31:08","slug":"watch-hugh-jackman-emma-thompson-star-in-sheep-detectives-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/356314\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson star in &#8216;Sheep Detectives&#8217; trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 18 (UPI) &#8212; The Greatest Showman icon Hugh Jackman plays a murdered shepherd whose sheep try to solve the mystery of his death in the first trailer for the movie, The Sheep Detectives.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon MGM Studios released the 2 1\/2-minute preview on Thursday.\n<\/p>\n<p>It shows Jackman&#8217;s intrepid flock looking for clues to the tune of The Proclaimers&#8217; peppy anthem &#8220;I&#8217;m Gonna Be (500 Miles).&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Love Actually, Dead of Winter and Down Cemetery Road star Emma Thompson plays Jackman&#8217;s lawyer, who reveals the trailer-dwelling shepherd was really worth $30 million, a possible motive for his murder.<\/p>\n<p>The adaptation of the novel, Three Bags Full, by Leonie Swann is set to open in theaters on May 8.<\/p>\n<p>The cast also includes Nicholas Braun, Nicholas Galitzine, Molly Gordonwith Hong Chau, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Chris O&#8217;Dowd, Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, Bella Ramsey, Brett Goldstein and Rhys Darby.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Emma-Thompson-hand-and-footprint-ceremony_1_1.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"481\" height=\"431\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t Actress Emma Thompson places her hands  in wet cement during a ceremony immortalizing her in the forecourt of TCL Chinese Theatre (formerly Grauman&#8217;s) in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on November 7, 2013.  UPI\/Jim Ruymen | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/News_Photos\/lp\/fec068a4d1a655a24d3e013c31a79155\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">License Photo<\/a>\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 18 (UPI) &#8212; The Greatest Showman icon Hugh Jackman plays a murdered shepherd whose sheep try to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-356314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}