Excellent news: Man Ritchie is lastly returning to the world of Sherlock Holmes! Unhealthy information: It’s completely not for the third installment of his steampunk-esque Sherlock Holmes movie franchise starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Legislation we’ve all been ready without end to see. [Insert long and frustrated sigh here.]
No, as a substitute, Ritchie is each directing and govt producing the forthcoming Prime Video collection Younger Sherlock, an origin story that can delve into the (future) Nice Detective’s early life. Loosely based mostly on the collection of younger grownup thriller novels by Andrew Lane, the present will see Sherlock as a uncooked, unfiltered, and undisciplined younger man who finds himself drawn into his first case: An unsolved homicide at Oxford College. Throw in a bit of world conspiracy, the very actual risk of jail, and a handful of acquainted faces like Mycroft Holmes and James Moriarty (who apparently hasn’t grown as much as be Holmes’s nemesis simply but), and also you’ve obtained all of the substances for a model new twist on a basic story. And, look, it’s obtained to be higher than that bizarre Younger Sherlock Holmes film from the ’80s, proper?
Hero Fiennes Tiffin, finest recognized for his efficiency as Hardin Scott within the After trilogy and for his look as a younger Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, stars because the younger Holmes. He’ll be joined by a stacked forged that features Dónal Finn, Zine Tseng, Natascha McElhone, Max Irons, Colin Firth, and Tiffin’s real-life uncle Joseph Fiennes, who’ll be taking part in Sherlock’s father.
“What we’re doing is recreating this character, however earlier than we initially meet him, so it’s about getting the measurements proper on how a lot of Sherlock to place in there and what number of glimpses to place in of who Sherlock goes to develop into, since you wish to see him,” Tiffin instructed Collider. “In any origin story, you wish to see how they obtained to the place they’re.”
