{"id":389773,"date":"2026-04-09T11:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389773\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:50:07","slug":"meaney-field-star-in-trailer-for-new-netflix-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389773\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaney, Field star in trailer for new Netflix adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irish actor Colm Meaney can be seen starring alongside Sally Field and Lewis Pullman in the official trailer for Netflix&#8217;s adaptation of Shelby Van Pelt&#8217;s bestselling novel, Remarkably Bright Creatures.<\/p>\n<p>Meaney plays Ethan in the upcoming mystery drama movie, while two-time Academy Award\u2013winning actor Field will play widow Tova.<\/p>\n<p>Pullman stars as Cameron, a new-in-town character who forms an unlikely friendship with an octopus (voiced by Alfred Molina).<\/p>\n<p>Watch: Colm Meaney stars in Remarkably Bright Creatures with Sally Field <\/p>\n<p alt=\"Colm Meaney stars in Remarkably Bright Creatures with Sally Field\" data-embed=\"comcast-player\" data-guid=\"epic-mpx-manual-31759\" data-id=\"ZHmDaYgfeMQ6\">\n<p>The official synopsis reads: &#8220;A widow (Sally Field) who works at a local aquarium finds joy again when she forms an unlikely bond with a Giant Pacific Octopus and a wayward young man (Lewis Pullman) who comes to town in search of family. Together, they will uncover a mystery that will lead them to a life-changing discovery and restore their sense of wonder. Based on the best-selling book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Director Olivia Newman (Where the Crawdads Sing) co-wrote the script with John Whittington (Sonic the Hedgehog 3).<\/p>\n<p>Joan Chen, Kathy Baker, Beth Grant, Sofia Black D&#8217;Elia will also star in the upcoming movie.<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably Bright Creatures will premiere on Netflix on 8 May.<\/p>\n<p>For more movie news, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/movies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish actor Colm Meaney can be seen starring alongside Sally Field and Lewis Pullman in the official trailer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-389773","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\/389773","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=389773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}