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Octopus! Trailer: A documentary that looks into the charismatic nature of octopuses

Directed by Niharika Desai, the docuseries promises to make watchers laugh, cry, and question their own place on this planet

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The trailer for Prime Video’s Octopus!, the upcoming documentary featuring Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a narrator, was unveiled by the streamer on Tuesday. The docuseries is all set to premiere on the streamer on May 8.

As per the official synopsis, Octopus! is about a "mix of characters who have their own unique connections to these creatures, from the scientist trying to save them and the explorer trying to understand them to Tracy Morgan, who is obsessed with them." Directed by Niharika Desai, the docuseries promises to make watchers laugh, cry, and question their own place on this planet.

Waller-Bridge’s production banner, Wells Street Films, which has an overall Amazon MGM Studios, is producing Octopus! along with Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions. Jenny Robins and Waller-Bridge for Wells Street Films, Stacey Offman and Richard Perello for Jigsaw Productions, and showrunner Melissa Wood serve as executive producers.

Octopus! will be a two-part docuseries.

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