{"id":323333,"date":"2025-12-18T19:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323333\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T19:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:42:08","slug":"hugh-jackman-has-talking-sheep-in-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323333\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Jackman Has Talking Sheep in Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/hugh-jackman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hugh-jackman_1\" data-tag=\"hugh-jackman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hugh Jackman<\/a> plays a shepherd whose livestock are ready to take a bite out of crime in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/trailer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_trailer_1\" data-tag=\"trailer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trailer<\/a> for The Sheep Detectives. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/amazon-mgm\/\" id=\"auto-tag_amazon-mgm_1\" data-tag=\"amazon-mgm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon MGM<\/a> Studios releases director \u00a0Kyle Balda\u2019s mystery film in theaters May 8, 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/emma-thompson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_emma-thompson_1\" data-tag=\"emma-thompson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Thompson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/nicholas-braun\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nicholas-braun_1\" data-tag=\"nicholas-braun\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Braun<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/nicholas-galitzine\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nicholas-galitzine_1\" data-tag=\"nicholas-galitzine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Galitzine<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/molly-gordon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_molly-gordon_1\" data-tag=\"molly-gordon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Molly Gordon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/hong-chau\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hong-chau_1\" data-tag=\"hong-chau\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Chau<\/a> round out the cast. The performers voicing the flock of sheep are Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Chris O\u2019Dowd, Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, Bella Ramsey, Brett Goldstein and Rhys Darby. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Sheep Detectives centers on George (Jackman), who reads detective novels to his sheep as he puts them to sleep. When a shocking crime rattles the farm, the sheep must work together to lead the investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cWe found George on the grass, and he\u2019s not moving,\u201d one of the sheep says in the trailer. \u201cOur shepherd was murdered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAnother woolly friends adds, \u201cThe policeman is completely hopeless. We need to help him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBalda (Minions: The Rise of Gru) makes his live-action directorial debut from a script by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/craig-mazin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_craig-mazin_1\" data-tag=\"craig-mazin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Mazin<\/a> that is based on author Leonie Swann\u2019s 2005 novel, Three Bags Full. Lindsay Doran, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner serve as producers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFootage from the movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/hugh-jackman-emma-thompson-three-bags-full-sheep-detective-1236180266\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">debuted earlier this year<\/a> at CinemaCon, with Jackman and Thompson teasing the project in a video segment. \u201cThe movie is a bit of a whodunit, which is always fun,\u201d Jackman said in one behind-the-scenes clip. \u201cThe movie has such heart.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tJackman can be soon be seen opposite Kate Hudson in Craig Brewer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/song-sung-blue-trailer-hugh-jackman-kate-hudson-diamond-1236365568\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Song Sung Blue<\/a>, hitting theaters on Christmas from Focus Features. He also stars as the titular hero in Michael Sarnoski\u2019s forthcoming A24 film The Death of Robin Hood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugh Jackman plays a shepherd whose livestock are ready to take a bite out of crime in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[97530,9404,841,96,127322,59392,127323,2839,114658,46119,12666,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-323333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-amazon-mgm","9":"tag-craig-mazin","10":"tag-emma-thompson","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-hong-chau","13":"tag-hugh-jackman","14":"tag-molly-gordon","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-nicholas-braun","17":"tag-nicholas-galitzine","18":"tag-trailer","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}