Overview
- Amazon MGM rolled out the second official trailer Tuesday for The Sheep Detectives, a live-action family mystery led by Hugh Jackman.
- The story adapts Leonie Swann’s bestseller about a flock that tries to solve its shepherd’s death after nights of hearing mystery novels.
- The project is now marketed simply as The Sheep Detectives after earlier materials used the longer title Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie.
- The film is set for an exclusive theatrical release on May 8, 2026, with no home release details announced by the studio in the new materials.
- Kyle Balda directs from a script by Craig Mazin, with producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title and executive producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and the ensemble includes Nicholas Braun, Nicholas Galitzine, Molly Gordon, Hong Chau, Emma Thompson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Chris O’Dowd, Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, Bella Ramsey, Brett Goldstein, and Rhys Darby.