DIRECTOR Bill Condon
STARRING Sir Ian McKellen, Laura
Linney, Hiroyuki Sanada, Roger
Allam, Milo Parker
Sherlock Holmes is as popular
today as he was when Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle first wrote
of his adventures way back in
1887. Holmes went on to star
in four novels and 56 short
stories, becoming such a
world-famous superstar that
people genuinely believed him
to be real – much to Conan
Doyle’s consternation! All
these years later, the bigbudget films starring Robert
Downey Jr, the BBC series
with Benedict Cumberbatch
Who better to play the
silver haired Sherlock
than Sir Ian?
and even the American police
procedural show, Elementary,
with Jonny Lee Miller, are
keeping the ‘consulting
detective’ alive in his younger
incarnations… but what of the
older Sherlock Holmes?
Set in 1947, Mr. Holmes
focuses on what happened to
Baker Street’s most famous
resident after he left London to
retire in the countryside of
Sussex. Sir Ian McKellen steps
into the shoes of the man with
the biggest brain in Britain –
although, in his dotage, that
mind isn’t as sharp as it used
to be. Worse in fact: he’s
actually forgetting things,
remembering his past in mere
fragments and having to make
notes of peoples’ names in the
present so he knows who
they are.
There’s one thing that is a
certainty, however: there’s a
50-year-old case haunting
him, and that’s because he
never solved it. All he
remembers is that there was
an angry husband and a
beautiful wife involved…
With sterling support
from Laura Linney and rising
young actor Milo Parker, Mr.
Holmes will charm anyone
with a soft spot for period
drama, solid performances
and, of course, Mr Sherlock
Holmes himself.
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PHOTO: Giles Keyte
Mr. Holmes TBC
RELEASED 19 June