{"id":200086,"date":"2025-12-19T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/200086\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:07:09","slug":"a-murder-mystery-with-sheep-detectives-is-now-our-most-anticipated-film-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/200086\/","title":{"rendered":"A murder mystery with sheep detectives is now our most anticipated film of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wanted to see a bunch of sheep solve a murder mystery? Well, thanks to the new movie The Sheep Detectives, you can.<\/p>\n

The film just dropped its first trailer<\/a> and has already created quite the buzz online.<\/p>\n

The film stars Hugh Jackman as George Hardy, a farmer who reads murder mystery novels to his sheep, assuming they don\u2019t understand him, but when he\u2019s found dead, and the local police are out of their depth, it\u2019s up to his sheep to find the culprit before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Sheep Detectives. Pic: Amazon MGM Studios<\/p>\n

The film sees Emma Thompson star as a high-flying lawyer and Nicholas Braun of Succession fame as the local copper Time Derry (and sporting an English accent), alongside He-Man himself Nicholas Galitzine, The Bear\u2019s Molly Gordan and The Night Agent\u2019s Hong Chau.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not all the star power this movie as, as voicing the sheep are some comedy powerhouses: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Ireland\u2019s own Chris O\u2019Dowd<\/a>, Regina Hall, Bella Ramsey, Brett Goldstein, Rhys Darby and, incredibly, Patrick Stewart!<\/p>\n

The film is based on the novel Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann and sees The Last Of Us\u2019 Craig Mazin penning the script, with Minions\u2019 Kye Balda directing.<\/p>\n

\"Julia-LouisJulia-Louis Dreyfus as the voice of Lily, the sheep, and Hugh Jackman as George Hardy in The Sheep Detectives Pic: Amazon MGM Studios
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The official synopsis reads: \u2018When 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 (Nicholas Braun), on the other hand, has never solved a serious crime in his life.<\/p>\n

\u2018So, 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\u2019t as simple as it appears in books.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Sheep Detectives lands in Irish cinemas in 2026 and you can check out the trailer below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have you ever wanted to see a bunch of sheep solve a murder mystery? Well, thanks to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-200086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}