Directed by Kyle Balda — Screenplay by Craig Mazin.

Based on the German novel Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann, Kyle Balda’s The Sheep Detectives follows a flock of sheep living peacefully near the English village of Denbrook. Every night, their beloved shepherd, George Hardy (played by Hugh Jackman), reads them murder mystery novels that, unbeknownst to George, they’re hooked on. When one night, the sheep find George lifeless outside his trailer, they are devastated and soon realize that perhaps George was actually murdered. Lily (voiced by Julia Louis-Dreyfus), an intelligent sheep who knows murder mysteries particularly well, teams up with the recluse black sheep Sebastian (voiced by Bryan Cranston) — but also Mopple (voiced by Chris O’Dowd), a sheep that, unlike most of the flock, is unable to forget things whenever he feels like it — in an effort to help steer the law enforcement investigation, led by clumsy and inexperienced officer Tim Derry (played by Nicholas Braun), in the right direction.