Ian Mckellen To Play SHERLOCK HOLMES

Ian Mckellen To Play SHERLOCK HOLMES

Ian Mckellen set to play another iteration of Sherlock Holmes on the big screen. Hit the jump to find out more.

By TheBlacksmith - Sep 05, 2013 01:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Other
Source: Telegraph

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.
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jerryblake
jerryblake - 9/5/2013, 1:16 PM
[frick] yeah ... i'm in.

From the director of "Kinsey" ?

Never saw that coming ...
PsychoManiacJacky
PsychoManiacJacky - 9/5/2013, 1:16 PM
This is an entirely different film with no relation to the Robert Downey Jr version. In fact the premise of this one sounds more in tune with the original Sherlock Holmes novels. Sounds very interesting.
WinterAvenger
WinterAvenger - 9/5/2013, 1:16 PM
Oh my god yes!
Himura
Himura - 9/5/2013, 1:18 PM
Magneto/Gandalf as Holmes? Sounds great to me!
jerryblake
jerryblake - 9/5/2013, 1:21 PM
I'm Gandalf and Magneto. And Sherlock too. Get over it.
dezdigi
dezdigi - 9/5/2013, 1:43 PM
Sounds pretty cool.
ManofSteel23
ManofSteel23 - 9/5/2013, 1:54 PM
why
AmazingFantasy
AmazingFantasy - 9/5/2013, 2:37 PM
Better than RDJ

benedict all the way tho
AzorAhai
AzorAhai - 9/5/2013, 3:08 PM
I'm up for Professor Moriarty.
jerryblake
jerryblake - 9/5/2013, 3:13 PM
@NicolasCage1
no ... man ... no

Where's my Con Air sequel ?
AzorAhai
AzorAhai - 9/5/2013, 3:22 PM
@jerry

It's on hold, right now working on my National Treasure 3 script. It is going to be the movie of the century believe me, you have to see it. It will be like the Star Wars of the National Treasure franchise. I got my inspiration on Indiana Jones 4.

About Con air sequel, I'll do it if we can get the right villain for it. Don't know, maybe Terrence Stamp or Ryan Reynolds.
jerryblake
jerryblake - 9/5/2013, 3:31 PM
Perhaps Billy Crystal is available :)
DelTorite
DelTorite - 9/5/2013, 3:35 PM
At least he's british. *cough*
AzorAhai
AzorAhai - 9/5/2013, 6:48 PM
@jerry

I don't think he is precisely what I am looking for, still he could do a sweet job as a supporting character, kind of like what Steve Buscemi did in the first one. Maybe Tom Hanks.
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 9/6/2013, 12:30 AM
No one will ever top Jeremy Brett and Basil Rathbone.
RexDartEskimoSpy
RexDartEskimoSpy - 9/6/2013, 11:50 AM
You're just being contrary, Droog. Cumberbatch is in that club.
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