By Following their work together recently on “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” filmmaker Guy Ritchie and actor Hero Fiennes Tiffin are reuniting for something new.
That project? A “Young Sherlock Holmes” series which Amazon Prime Video has granted a straight-to-series order for. The series will be based on Andy Lane’s “Young Sherlock Holmes” novels.
Tiffin is attached to play the title role which marks his first major TV project as the lead. Ritchie will direct and executive produce the show.
The action-packed origin story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved detective sees him at just age 19. He’s disgraced, raw, unfiltered, and unformed, when he finds himself caught up in a murder mystery at Oxford University which threatens his freedom.
Diving into his first-ever case with a wild lack of discipline, Sherlock manages to unravel a globe-trotting conspiracy that will change his life forever.
Ritchie offered a statement discussing his approach for the new series:
“In Young Sherlock, we’re going to see an exhilarating new version of the detective everyone thinks they know in a way they’ve never imagined before. We’re going to crack open this enigmatic character, find out what makes him tick, and learn how he becomes the genius we all love.”
The series comes after Ritchie directed Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in two successful “Sherlock Holmes” films over a decade ago for Warner Bros. Pictures.
The series will be written and executive produced by showrunner Matthew Parkhill. Simon Kelton, Ivan Atkinson, Simon Maxwell, Dhana Gilbert, Colin Wilson, Marc Resteghini and Harriet Creelman also executive produce.
Source: Variety
The post Ritchie To Direct “Young Sherlock Holmes” appeared first on Dark Horizons.
