With two current TV shows and a movie series, Sherlock Holmes is rarely far from our screens nowadays, but prepare from another version of the consulting detective.
Sir Ian Mckellen is signed on to play Holmes in an adaption of 'A Slight Trick Of the Mind', a novel from Mitch Cullin. This version appears to set Holmes in very different territory from his stories by Arthur Conan Doyle and unrelated to the Downey Jr movies. The film will be directed by Bill Condon, who Mckellen worked with on Gods and Monsters.
The film will be set in post-WW2 England with Holmes in the late years of his life, with a son, no Watson, and a broken memory only remembering fragments of what his life has been, whilst haunted by an unresolved case 50 years previously.
Filming is reported to start shooting in April 2014.