Sherlock Holmes might be more popular than ever before with the hit BBC series Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, Elementary starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu and the movie franchise starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. It’s a name that’s still thriving over a century after the name first appeared in print, but surely there isn’t anymore Sherlock Holmes has to offer? Well think again, Ian McKellen (Lord of the Rings, X:Men) is set to star as the fabled character, this time in a different light.
McKellen will play a retired Sherlock Holmes in Bill Condon’s, A Slight Trick of the Mind based on the novel by Mitch Cullin. The synopsis is this:
“In 1947, Sherlock Holmes, long retired, lives in a sleepy Sussex village with his housekeeper and her amateur-sleuthing son. But far from living out a peaceful retirement, he is haunted by an unsolved case from fifty years ago. He remembers only fragments: a confrontation with an angry husband, a secret bond with his beautiful but unstable wife.
With his legendary mental powers on the wane, and without his old sidekick Watson, Holmes is faced with the toughest case of his life – a case that might finally reveal to him the mysteries of the human heart”.
Condon is no stranger to adapting novels to the big screen, previously working on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part’s 1 & 2, but don’t let that put you off as he’s also an Academy Award Winner for his 1998 biopic Gods and Monsters which took the award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Gods and Monsters also starred Ian McKellen, nominated for Best Actor for his role, so the two obviously work well together but we’ll have to wait quite a while yet to see if they can recreate that same magic as filming begins in the UK next April.
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