{"id":567235,"date":"2026-08-13T00:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/567235\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T00:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:12:10","slug":"poignant-90s-set-welsh-comedy-drama-with-michael-sheen-gets-first-teaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/567235\/","title":{"rendered":"“Poignant” ’90s-set Welsh comedy-drama with Michael Sheen gets first teaser"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first trailer has been released for Out There, an English-language Welsh-created science-fiction comedy drama starring Michael Sheen, ahead of its world premiere later this week.<\/p>\n

Set in the 1990s in a sleepy seaside town in Wales, the plot follows a teenaged astrology enthusiast who thinks she has spotted a UFO, and a big conspiracy unfolds. Are the government really hiding anything, or are the people just desperate for more excitement in their lives?<\/p>\n

Alongside Sheen \u2014 who plays a hippie shop owner with a loose understanding of what makes a good bargain (“You buy one, you get one”) \u2014 the film’s cast includes Mammoth’s Nerys Amber Stocks, Alien: Earth’s Tom Moya, Doctor Who’s Aneurin Barnard, Game of Thrones’ Iwan Rheon, and Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’s Alice Lowe.<\/p>\n

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Out There<\/p>\n

Related: UK film release dates<\/a><\/p>\n

The film will be premiering this Friday during the Edinburgh International Film Festival<\/a>, as part of the In Competition strand.<\/p>\n

The full EIFF synopsis reads: “Still grieving the disappearance of her scientist father, amateur teenaged astronomer Maz (Stocks) is convinced she has spotted something suspicious hovering above her sleepy Welsh hometown.<\/p>\n

“Recruiting the support of her best mate Little Elis (Moya), UFO-obsessed conspiracy theorist Bryn (Barnard) and local psychic Shifty Gruff (Sheen), Maz and her gang of misfits set out to uncover the truth, one that is far more complex than they might have expected.<\/p>\n

“Breathlessly paced, wittily evoking its 1999 setting via superb music choices, costumes and production design, this charming Welsh debut from director Simon Ryninks is poignant, funny and entirely unpredictable.”<\/p>\n

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Out There<\/p>\n

Related: “This is personal”: Michael Sheen opens up about “gripping” new BBC docuseries project<\/a><\/p>\n

Writer and director Simon Ryninks previously told the BBC<\/a> that he had “always wanted to set a film on the Ceredigion coast as it’s my favourite place in the world”, but most of the production took place in and around Bridgend, Nelson and Porthcawl for practical reasons.<\/p>\n

Ryninks did manage to film some of it in Ceredigion, stating “that was when the film really began to feel like the one I’d carried in my head for seven years”.<\/p>\n

We don’t have a wider release date for Out There yet, but if you want to check out more modern Welsh cinema (in English), the film Madfabulous \u2014 starring It’s a Sin’s Callum Scott Howells \u2014 is available now on home<\/a> platforms<\/a> and disc<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Joe Anderton is a freelance news writer at Digital Spy, having worked there since 2016. In his time, he’s covered a host of live events and interviewed celebrities big and small. A big fan of TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> both mainstream and obscure, Joe also enjoys video games and in particular PlayStation. Joe currently does not use Twitter, but he only ever used it to tell people to watch the film Help! I’m a Fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first trailer has been released for Out There, an English-language Welsh-created science-fiction comedy drama starring Michael Sheen,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[147144,2115,279327,2117,156,2120,207184,2116,409,111,139,69,279326,251090],"class_list":["post-567235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-887b527a-8e43-4e1d-b077-2f81965ac80d","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-hasproduct-true","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-shorttitle-90s-set-welsh-dramedy-with-michael-sheen-gets-first-teaser","tag-sponsored-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}