Benedict Cumberbatch stars in the new trailer for the upcoming Netflix miniseries Eric, in which he plays a puppeteer desperately searching for his missing son. Watch it below.
In the thriller, set in 1980s New York City, Cumberbatch plays Vincent, a prominent puppeteer and creator of the popular children's television show. Good morning darling. When Vincent's son Edgar disappears, guilt torments him and he goes into a downward spiral. Obsessed with Edgar's drawings of a blue monster puppet named Eric, Vincent becomes convinced that the only way to get his son to return home is to show the puppet on television.
“Eric is a deep dive into the Big Apple of the 1980s, battling rising crime rates, internal corruption, endemic racism, a forgotten underclass, and the AIDS epidemic, exposing the divisions that abound between parents searching for their children, a detective struggling with a system that is broken, and a lost child who may never come home and questions where the real monsters are,” series creator Abi Morgan said in a statement. “With puppets… many puppets.”
It will premiere on May 30 on Netflix. Eric It also stars Gaby Hoffmann, McKinley Belcher III, Dan Fogler and Clarke Peters.
Last year, Cumberbatch starred in Wes Anderson's short film. The wonderful story of Henry Sugarwhich was recently repackaged on Netflix as an anthology alongside the director's three other Roald Dahl adaptations.
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