Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn) is set to direct Ian McKellen — who starred in another Condon-directed film, Gods and Monsters — in a film adaptation of Mitch Cullin's 2005 novel A Slight Trick of the Mind.
McKellen will play an elderly Sherlock Holmes, who reflects on a 50-year-old unsolved case that still troubles him.
Jeffrey Hatcher (The Duchess) is writing the screenplay. Filming is expected to get underway in Spring 2014.
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A Slight Trick of the Mind
Mitch Cullin
A Novel with Sherlock Holmes
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.
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