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There are a number of exciting movies hitting theaters this weekend, including Kyla Balda's The Sheep Detectives. The book to screen adaptation features an all-star cast, and is a comedy murder mystery that's a mixture between "Babe" and "Knives Out." Nicholas Braun plays bumbling local police officer Tim Derry in the new movie, and spoke to CinemaBlend about the way his agent convinced him to join the unconventional project.

Critics have been praising "The Sheep Detectives," thanks to its mixture of comedy and moving story of grief. Braun is one of the main human characters and, as you can see above, the Succession star told us how he got involved.
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00:00There's so many reasons I got involved with this.
00:03I mean, my agent sent it to me and he was like, hear me out.
00:09You know, it's a sheep solving a murder mystery and you work with the sheep.
00:16Read it.
00:18But also Craig Mazin wrote it and Lord Miller are producing it.
00:23And Hugh Jackman is signed on to play the shepherd.
00:24And, you know, Kyle Balda is directing it, who's made these really massive franchise, you know, family films, animated family
00:33films.
00:34But this but he knows how to do all this.
00:37So I just kind of set up to love it.
00:39And then I really did.
00:42And I think the heavier themes, the grief and loss and all of that, they're amazing themes to explore in
00:51a family film.
00:52I mean, Up, right?
00:53Up deals with say less.
00:55I mean, Up crushes you within five minutes.
00:59Devastating.
01:00And and, you know, so does this when they lose Hugh's character.
01:06And and so.
01:09Yeah, I think.
01:11I was really moved reading it.
01:13I had high hopes as we were making it and then seeing the finished film.
01:18It exceeded my hopes.
01:20I think it I think it's just really special.
01:23And, yeah, it deals with all that stuff.
01:25The levels it's playing with are really great.
01:27It surrounds these heavier things with comedy and character and great actors.
01:32And, you know, it's a colorful movie.
01:34It's fun to look at.
01:35Like the setting is great.
01:36But but the fact that it goes there, like really makes the movie, I think, is as special as it
01:44could be.
01:47Yeah.
01:47Or they works.
01:48Yeah.
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