Benedict Cumberbatch Movie The Thing With Feathers Gets Trailer

Briarcliff Entertainment has shared the official trailer for The Thing With Feathers, the upcoming drama led by Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch. Following its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, the movie is now slated to arrive in theaters on November 28, 2025.

“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,” reads the official synopsis.

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What happens in The Thing With Feathers trailer?

The video shows Cumberbatch as a grief-stricken father of two young boys, who is struggling to deal with the aftermath of his wife’s sudden death. To make matters worse, he starts manifesting a man-like crow, who provokes him to face his new reality. The trailer teases how the crow’s arrival might just be the answer that could save him and his family from spiraling into the darkness.

The Thing With Feathers is written and directed by Dylan Southern, based on Max Porter’s 2015 novella. The movie also stars David Thewlis, Jessie Cave, Sam Spruell, Leo Bill, Vinette Robinson, Garry Cooper, Tim Plester, Richard Boxall, Henry Boxall, and more. Since its world premiere, the movie has already received a Tomatometer rating of 53% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 30 reviews.

It is produced by Andrea Cornwell, Adam Ackland, and Leah Clarke. Executive producers are Cumberbatch, Sean Wheelan, Adrian Politowski, Sierra Garcia, Nadia Khamlichi, Nessa McGill, Mia Bays, Charlie Gatsky Sinclair, Nils Leonard, Nathanaël Karmitz, Elisha Karmitz, Fionnuala Jamison, Morwin Schmookler, Patricia Lawley, Lee Broda, Thomas R. Burke, and Ollie Madden.

Source: Comingsoon.net