Mr. Holmes (2015) (D: Condon, S: McKellen, Linney, Sanada)
09-05-13, 07:27 AM
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Bill Condon To Direct Ian McKellen As A Retired Sherlock Holmes
Bill Condon‘s Wikileaks movie The Fifth Estate debuts in Toronto which kicks off today. The helmer will next turn to A Slight Trick Of The Mind, reteaming with his Gods And Monsters star Ian McKellen. Mckellen will play a retired Sherlock Holmes who is haunted by a 50-year-old unsolved case. Based on a novel by Mitch Cullin, the screenplay is adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher (The Duchess). Icon UK’s production arm AI is financing and co-producing. BBC Films is also co-financing. Shooting gets underway in the UK next April. Anne Carey is producing via Archer Gray Productions. King’s Speech producers Iain Canning and Emile Sherman of See-Saw Films, Icon/AI Film’s Aviv Giladi, and Len Blavatnik, whose Access Industries owns the Icon UK group, are exec producing as is BBC Films’ Christine Langan. FilmNation is handling international sales. Condon is repped by WME, Anonymous Content, Wayne Alexander and Robert Nau. McKellen is repped by Chris Andrews at CAA and Paul Lyon-Maris at Independent Talent Group.
09-05-13, 07:42 AM
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Re: Bill Condon To Direct Ian McKellen As A Retired Sherlock Holmes
I hope he meets up with Robert Downey Jr. via time travel in the sequel.
09-06-13, 02:00 AM
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This sounds promising. I'd love to see it.
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Mr. Holmes (2015) (D: Condon, S: McKellen, Linney, Sanada)
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An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes looks back on his life, and grapples with an unsolved case involving a beautiful woman.
McKellen is reuniting with Gods and Monsters director Bill Condon, who also did Kinsey, Dreamgirls, and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, because I guess he had a mortgage to pay or something. Linney also appeared in Kinsey and recently in Condon's The Fifth Estate, starring Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
I haven't read A Slight Trick of the Mind, although I've had a copy sitting on my shelf for a while. (When the zombies attack, I'll be able to build a small defensive wall out of all the unread Sherlock Holmes pastiche novels I've got sitting around.) A year before it was published, there was another novel about an elderly and retired Holmes, roughly 90 years old, set in the 1940s: Michael Chabon's The Final Solution. I've read that one, and I had been hoping that it would get turned into a movie starting Christopher Lee. A similar story with Ian McKellen doesn't sound like a bad settlement.
08-21-14, 06:10 PM
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I've been looking forward to this one. It sounds intriguing.
08-21-14, 06:19 PM
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I'm a sucker for Holmes, and seeing McKellan play the character makes this an automatic watch for me. Looking forward to this one.
08-21-14, 07:05 PM
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Thought it was gonna be about John Holmes.
08-21-14, 11:24 PM
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McKellan playing Holmes? I'm in.
Incidentally, check out The Seven Percent Solution. Wonderful movie, and terrific Holmes pastiche. Easy to see why Meyer prospered. Fantastic stuff. The movie, I mean. Haven't read the book yet, because I'm a horrible excuse for an English lit major with ADHD who reads very slowly.
Incidentally, check out The Seven Percent Solution. Wonderful movie, and terrific Holmes pastiche. Easy to see why Meyer prospered. Fantastic stuff. The movie, I mean. Haven't read the book yet, because I'm a horrible excuse for an English lit major with ADHD who reads very slowly.
08-23-14, 09:10 PM
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Re: Mr. Holmes (2015) (D: Condon, S: McKellen, Linney, Sanada)
Drew Pearce (Iron Man 3) wrote a script a while back and every few months there's an article with one of the actors or producers being quoted saying that it'll happen when everyone's schedules line up.
03-06-15, 05:45 AM
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04-20-15, 04:41 PM
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This looks so good. I forgot that Hiroyuki Sanada was also a part of the cast.
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08-10-15, 09:43 AM
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Re: Mr. Holmes (2015) (D: Condon, S: McKellen, Linney, Sanada)
Saw this last night. It's a good film. I enjoyed the cast and the way they were utilized. The story has interesting mysteries to it. McKellen is just so awesome at being this Holmes. Such a delight to see him do a role like this.
It's funny, I only know McKellen as an old man. Since X, I've been a fan of him in movies. Kind of wish I could see what the hell young McKellen did but I never cared to see his youth's work.
I knew I was going to love this pretty much when the music started. It all has a quality to it that pulls you in. The details, the cast, etc. It's just a good flick that attracts you into following that world.
It's funny, I only know McKellen as an old man. Since X, I've been a fan of him in movies. Kind of wish I could see what the hell young McKellen did but I never cared to see his youth's work.
I knew I was going to love this pretty much when the music started. It all has a quality to it that pulls you in. The details, the cast, etc. It's just a good flick that attracts you into following that world.
08-10-15, 06:35 PM
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Re: Mr. Holmes (2015) (D: Condon, S: McKellen, Linney, Sanada)
I wouldn't call it slow. But it's a moderate paced film. It flows well. Holmes' motivation keeps you going for sure.
02-28-16, 10:52 AM
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Saw this last night. I thought it was slow. Excellent performances but would have liked to see more depth and suspense regarding the case. Too much focus on his old age. As someone who is watching his mother disintegrate with dementia, its not great entertainment.
