Ian McKellen Will Play Sherlock Holmes In A New Movie

Sir Ian McKellen will play a retired Sherlock Holmes in a new film titled ‘A Slight Trick of the Mind’.

The film will be set in 1947 and follows Holmes living out his twilight years in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and her son.

It has been revealed that Sir Ian McKellen will star as Sherlock Holmes in an adaptation of Mitch Cullin’s ‘A Slight Trick of the Mind’, to be directoed by Bill Condon.

McKellen will play Holmes in 1947 as an aging and retired detective who goes back to solve the one case that got away. The plot has been described as follows…

“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.”

The film marks the second collaboration between Condon and McKellen after Gods and Monsters, which won a ‘Best Adapted Screenplay’ Oscar for Condon and ‘Best Actor’ nomination for McKellen.

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