Seems like Sherlock Holmes is everywhere these days. "Sherlock" is a successful television show in Britain while its American counterpart "Elementary" has met with similar success. Then of course there are the Guy Ritchie films of the past few years. However, audiences are about to experience an older Holmes. MUCH older.
"Vulture" reports that Ian McKellen is set to star as Sherlock Holmes in the adaptation of the novel A Slight Trick of the Mind. Here's a brief plot description of Mitch Cullin's book:
It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn’t even know he was asking–about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind’s ability to know.
Sounds like a much more emotional and less cerebral exploration of Doyle's character than we've seen before. McKellen will team up with director Bill Condon once again. (The two previously worked on the film Gods and Monsters.) McKellen can next be seen in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug on December 13th while Bill Condon's next movie, The Fifth Estate, releases October 18th.
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