First trailer for Benedict Cumberbatch movie The Thing with Feathers
Benedict Cumberbatch journeys through the seven stages of grief in the first trailer for The Thing with Feathers, which has been released by Vue Lumière.
Oscar nominee Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game; The Power of the Dog) stars in this adaptation of Max Porter’s novel, Grief is the Thing with Feathers. Cumberbatch plays a father who is struggling to raise his two children in the wake of his wife’s sudden death.
The grieving process is then personalised by the arrival of a cawing crow (voiced by David Thewlis), who may or may not have arrived to ease the anguish felt by Cumberbatch’s character. This also stars Richard Boxall, Henry Boxall, Eric Lampaert, Vinette Robinson, and Sam Spruell.
Written and directed by Dylan Southern, the movie premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, and will be released later this year.
Synopsis:
Left to raise two young sons after the unexpected death of his wife, Dad’s life begins to unravel. Grief is messy and chaotic enough as it is, but when it takes the form of an unhinged and unwanted house guest – Crow – taunting him from the shadows, things start to spiral out of control…but maybe that’s exactly what Dad needs.
The Thing with Feathers is released by Vue Lumière in the UK on November 21st.
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