New Poster for 'The Sheep Detectives' - Follows a flock of sheep who must solve the brutal murder of their shepherd

I want to know why they didn't call it 'Three Bags Full' rather than something so glaringly bland

Oh, this is based on Glenkill!? Nice. I liked that book. Not so sure how this will work as a movie though, since it's mostly sheeps talking and having inner monologues.

Thank you! I thought I’d lost my mind going “this plot seems familiar”

I was thinking that we havent gotten a new Babe, Pig in the City movie in a while

I won’t accept Chicken Run slander

This is like a side quest from Babe.

And in the 2000s, he was known for RocketMan (the Harland Williams space comedy, not the Elton biopic), Scary Movie 3 & 4, and Superhero Movie, so this feels like it would have fit in more with his early work.

George miller did babe, happy feet and mad max

Who approved letting him do comedy again? He should be forced to only do gritty dramas.

More like "what if Babe featured a grizzly murder"

Ok 20 plus years later and I still won’t forgive that movie’s marketing making me think it was about a rapping kangaroo

The trailer made me feel like "What if the Knives Out cast were animals?"

Don’t bring up that lie of a movie

full disclosure, i saw the trailer for this in theaters and my immediate thought was "they're remaking babe?!?"

I read that in his voice. #😆 There is only one correction if you hear it in his voice. >A traveling salesman goes to a farmhouse looking for a place to stay for the night; the farmer goes “I can put you up for one night but you’d have to stay in the barn”. So he spends the night there, the next morning the farmer comes in and he goes “You comfortable?” salesman says “I had a great time, I talked to all the animals”. Farmer goes “You talked to the animals?” “Yeah I spoke to the chickens, they say you collect the eggs every morning five minutes after six.” Farmer replies “that’s exactly right”. Saleman continues, “The horse says he’s Otis, you’ve owned him for 10 years”. Farmer goes “that’s incredible”. “I spoke to the cow. The cow says her name is Elsie and you milk every morning at exactly 8:30” and the farmer goes “That’s incredible!”. Then the salesman says “And then I spoke to the sheep” and the farmer goes... >#***“Those sheep are lying!”***

A bloke is driving along a road one day when he passes a house with a sign out front that says "talking dog for sale, $50" Out of pure curiosity he pulls into the driveway and knocks on the door and the home-owner brings out a dog. "So, you can talk?" "That's right!" says the dog "Wow, that's incredible, where did you learn that?" "Well when I was a pup I was adopted by NASA, they trained me to speak so they could send me on secret space flights they didn't trust anyone else with. I was trained to read too so I was able to tell them critical information from the system readouts." "That sounds amazing!" "Yeah then after that I did a spell with the CIA, I'd sit in on secret briefings, they could scan me for as much recording equipment as they liked, I remembered every word." "It sounds like you've had quite a life!" "Indeed, after that I mostly did consultancy work for the FBI, a few foreign governments, just lending my expertise where I could." "Wow," says the man before turning to the owner, "and you're giving him away for just fifty dollars!?" "Of course i am!" replied the owner, "he's a chronic bullshitter, he's never left this property!"

Pretty sure Hugh’s the vic.

Garfield without Garfield is so good

probably a lot of flashbacks

I am calling it now, there will be a twist where he was never murdered and he was hiding in plane sight, disguised as one of the sheep, to root out the bad guys.

Hey! Spoilers!!!

That divorce he had last year must have been *really* expensive.

Not a kid's birthday. And not just some billionaire. It was his close friend Rupert Murdoch's birthday. Hugh is the godfather to two of Murdoch's daughters.

Apparently Jackman is in a crazy cult. I always thought he was a little "off" with his mannequin like smiles.

That really bummed me out.

Does it most weekends, from what I hear.

First thing I ever saw him in was a pro shot of Oklahoma! The musical. 

No. What was it called?

Actors are essentially self employed. Jobs a job after all

I mean there's nothing wrong with doing a hokey kids movie. It won't be "great cinema" but at the end of the day all cinema is just entertainment.

Yeah, I thought the same. It looks genuinely fun and silly. I don’t think I’d ever go to the theaters for it, but I’m interested in watching it at home. And I can see it being a great family movie for theaters.

Well, it's based on a book that's a pretty standard cozy mystery, except for the fact that the detectives are sheep. I don't think it's going to be explicitly pandering to kids, but it probably won't have much to scare them off.

The trailer didnt make it seem like a children's movie.

All right you've convinced me

He’s hairy enough to be a sheep

I hope that's how they pitched it

Shears Out.

I’ve not seen the trailer but you just sold me.

That’s EXACTLY what I thought! lol

I said the same thing to my wife!

I just went and looked at the trailer and was ‘yessssss I’m in’

There was a special time where talking animal movies were good, Homeward Bound, Babe, Stuart Little. Then we got flooded with the Buddies movies and it ruined it.

God that animal farm trailer is horrendous. Took all the, you know, communist commentary from the book and turned it into an… action fart joke kids movie? I was mildly disturbed reading it as a highschooler I’m not sure that it’s the best concept to market to kids but what do I know.

It’s pretty much the first page of the book. 

I swear the super hard-hitting serious ones would always just rather be silly if they had the choice lol

sounds like more of his career was being silly, and then he did horrific and bleak as a treat

The trailer as well

None of the names I recognize match the people on the poster, so they're probably the sheep indeed.

Yeah, it's weird I don't recognize anyone on the top except for Hugh and Emma, but I recognize almost the entire second line. That's not usually how they do billing.