{"id":353602,"date":"2025-12-18T16:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/353602\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:26:08","slug":"watch-hugh-jackman-emma-thompson-star-in-sheep-detectives-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/353602\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson star in ‘Sheep Detectives’ trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec. 18 (UPI) — 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

Amazon MGM Studios released the 2 1\/2-minute preview on Thursday.<\/p>\n

It shows Jackman’s intrepid flock looking for clues to the tune of The Proclaimers’ peppy anthem “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles).”<\/p>\n

Love Actually, Dead of Winter and Down Cemetery Road star Emma Thompson plays Jackman’s lawyer, who reveals the trailer-dwelling shepherd was really worth $30 million, a possible motive for his murder.<\/p>\n

The adaptation of the novel, Three Bags Full, by Leonie Swann is set to open in theaters on May 8.<\/p>\n

\"Emma<\/p>\n

Emma Thompson arrives on the red carpet for the New York premiere of “Good Luck To You, Leo Grande” at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival. File Photo by Gabriele Holtermann\/UPI<\/p>\n

The cast also includes Nicholas Braun, Nicholas Galitzine, Molly Gordonwith Hong Chau, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Chris O’Dowd, Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, Bella Ramsey, Brett Goldstein and Rhys Darby.<\/p>\n

\"Nicholas<\/p>\n

Nicholas Braun attends the premiere of “Saturday Night” at the Royal Alexandra Theatre during the Toronto International Film Festival in 2024. File Photo by Chris Chew\/UPI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 18 (UPI) — The Greatest Showman icon Hugh Jackman plays a murdered shepherd whose sheep try to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,36874,75,10797,79264,337,153268,140208,153269,100075],"class_list":{"0":"post-353602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-emma-thompson","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-hugh-jackman","13":"tag-julia-louis-dreyfus","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-nicholas-braun","16":"tag-patrick-stewart","17":"tag-the-proclaimers","18":"tag-the-sheep-detectives"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}