Benedict Cumberbatch stars within the new trailer for Netflix’s upcoming restricted sequence Eric, wherein he performs a puppeteer desperately on the lookout for his lacking son. Watch it under.
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 method for his son to come back house is by getting the puppet on TV.
“Eric is a deep dive into the Nineteen Eighties Large Apple, grappling with rising crime charges, inside corruption, endemic racism, a forgotten underclass, and the AIDS epidemic, exposing the divisions rife between dad and mom trying to find their youngster, a detective battling with a system that’s damaged, and a misplaced boy who might by no means come house, and asks the place the true monsters lie,” stated sequence creator Abi Morgan in an announcement. “With puppets… numerous puppets.”
Premiering Might 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 Fantastic Story of Henry Sugar, which was just lately repackaged on Netflix as an anthology together with the director’s different three Roald Dahl variations.