Benedict Cumberbatch stars within the new trailer for Netflix’s upcoming restricted collection Eric, through which he performs a puppeteer desperately in search of his lacking son. Watch it beneath.
Within the thriller, set in Nineteen Eighties New York Metropolis, Cumberbatch performs Vincent, a number one puppeteer and creator of the favored kids’s tv present Good Day Sunshine. When Vincent’s son Edgar disappears, he turns into wracked with guilt and enters a downward spiral. Obsessive about Edgar’s drawings of a blue monster puppet named Eric, Vincent turns into satisfied that the one approach for his son to come back house is by getting the puppet on TV.
“Eric is a deep dive into the Nineteen Eighties Huge Apple, grappling with rising crime charges, inner corruption, endemic racism, a forgotten underclass, and the AIDS epidemic, exposing the divisions rife between dad and mom looking for their little one, a detective battling with a system that’s damaged, and a misplaced boy who might by no means come residence, and asks the place the actual monsters lie,” mentioned collection creator Abi Morgan in an announcement. “With puppets… plenty of puppets.”
Premiering Could thirtieth on Netflix, Eric additionally stars Gaby Hoffmann, McKinley Belcher III, Dan Fogler, and Clarke Peters.
Final yr, Cumberbatch starred within the Wes Anderson quick The Great Story of Henry Sugar, which was not too long ago repackaged on Netflix as an anthology together with the director’s different three Roald Dahl diversifications.
