Disney+ releases trailer for OS ‘The Mysterious Benedict Society’

Subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service Disney+ has released the official trailer for its upcoming original TV series, “The Mysterious Benedict Society.” The show is based on the best-selling book series – a quartet of children’s books – by Trenton Lee Stewart.

The story centers on four orphans who are each gifted in different areas and are recruited by the unconventional Mr. Benedict (played by Emmy Award winner Tony Hale) to save the world. All four children are either orphans or unwanted by their parents.

In the story, the world is needed to be saved from a global crisis referred to as The Emergency.

The four kids are named Reynie Muldoon (played by Mystic Inscho), George “Sticky” Washington (by Seth Carr), Kate Wetherall (by Emmy DeOliveira), and Constance Contraire (by Marta Kessler). They form the society and are tasked with investigating an institution called L.I.V.E. (the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened) to try and find out the truth behind The Emergency. L.I.V.E. is run by a man named Dr. Ledroptha Curtain.

It appears to the society members that Dr. Curtain is behind the global panic, so they come up with a plan to defeat him.

In addition to the above mentioned actors, the series stars Kristen Schaal (“Bill & Ted Face the Music“), Ryan Hurst (“The Walking Dead,” “Fear the Walking Dead”), MaameYaa Boafo (“Ramy”) and Gia Sandhu (“A Perfect Plan”).

The book “The Mysterious Benedict Society” won a 2007 Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth award and was a New York Times bestseller in 2008. It also won a 2008 Texas Lone Star Reading List award, the 2008 E.B. White Read Aloud Award for Older Readers and a 2008 Notable Children’s Book for Middle Readers award from the American Library Association.

You can watch the trailer for the series below too

The 8 episode series will premiere June 25 on Disney+.