From spoofs to point-and-click adventure games, here are 10 of the most memorable unusual incarnations of Sherlock Holmes...
We don’t know a great deal about the content of the 90-minute Sherlock special set to air later this year, but one thing has emerged from the set photos and tantalising titbits of information we’ve seen so far. Sherlock Holmes and John Watson will be in nineteenth-century garb, pitching them back into the setting of the legendary detective’s original adventures: 1895, to be precise. Why that happens is as yet unclear, but all will be revealed.
For those still craving their Holmes fix in the meantime, the new film Mr. Holmes offers us Ian McKellen’s take on the character, musing upon an old case as he looks back on his long career from the vantage point of retirement. Jonny Lee Miller’s ultra-modern, Us-based Sherlock will be entering his fourth...
We don’t know a great deal about the content of the 90-minute Sherlock special set to air later this year, but one thing has emerged from the set photos and tantalising titbits of information we’ve seen so far. Sherlock Holmes and John Watson will be in nineteenth-century garb, pitching them back into the setting of the legendary detective’s original adventures: 1895, to be precise. Why that happens is as yet unclear, but all will be revealed.
For those still craving their Holmes fix in the meantime, the new film Mr. Holmes offers us Ian McKellen’s take on the character, musing upon an old case as he looks back on his long career from the vantage point of retirement. Jonny Lee Miller’s ultra-modern, Us-based Sherlock will be entering his fourth...
- 6/29/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
'Sherlock Holmes' movie found at Cinémathèque Française (image: William Gillette in 'Sherlock Holmes') Sherlock Holmes, a long-thought-lost 1916 feature starring stage performer and playwright William Gillette in the title role, has been discovered in the vaults of the Cinémathèque Française. Directed by the all-but-forgotten Arthur Berthelet for the Chicago-based Essanay production company, the approximately 90-minute movie is supposed to be not only the sole record of William Gillette's celebrated performance as Arthur Conan Doyle's detective, but also the only surviving Gillette film.* In the late 19th century, William Gillette himself wrote the play Sherlock Holmes, which turned out to be a mash-up of various stories and novels featuring the detective, chiefly the short stories "A Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Final Problem." ("May I marry Holmes?" Gillette, while vying for the role, telegraphed Conan Doyle. The latter replied, "You may marry or murder or do What you like with him.
- 10/3/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Feature Gem Wheeler 14 Feb 2014 - 07:00
Gem compares Elementary and Sherlock's approach to adapting Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories...
Warning: contains plot details for Sherlock series three and Elementary season two.
Unless you’ve been hiding out in a mysterious foreign country since 2012, you’ll know that Sherlock recently concluded its third series by presenting us with another tantalising mystery. The last time this happened, it was the thorny question of how Sherlock managed to survive his leap from the roof of St Bart’s. This year, we’re left to wonder how Moriarty apparently brushed aside the small matter of a self-inflicted bullet wound to the head. It’s comforting to know that times may change, but Sherlock’s capacity to induce fevered speculation and waves of online outrage will be with us for some time to come.
We’ve been granted no fewer than three recent interpretations of the consulting detective.
Gem compares Elementary and Sherlock's approach to adapting Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories...
Warning: contains plot details for Sherlock series three and Elementary season two.
Unless you’ve been hiding out in a mysterious foreign country since 2012, you’ll know that Sherlock recently concluded its third series by presenting us with another tantalising mystery. The last time this happened, it was the thorny question of how Sherlock managed to survive his leap from the roof of St Bart’s. This year, we’re left to wonder how Moriarty apparently brushed aside the small matter of a self-inflicted bullet wound to the head. It’s comforting to know that times may change, but Sherlock’s capacity to induce fevered speculation and waves of online outrage will be with us for some time to come.
We’ve been granted no fewer than three recent interpretations of the consulting detective.
- 2/13/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Review Frances Roberts 8 Nov 2013 - 12:22
Elementary mines a classic Conan Doyle story for this week's episode. Here's Frances' review of The Marchioness...
This review contains spoilers.
2.7 The Marchioness
What none of us wanted from Elementary was a buddy cop procedural randomly studded with chunks of the Conan-Doyle canon. Chucking speckle-banded snakes and dogs who didn’t bark into cases that could otherwise be solved by Detective A. N Other and his sidekick pal wasn’t the point of a new take on Sherlock Holmes. Translating the mores and idioms of the late-nineteenth century into the early twenty-first, and seeing a now-archetypal character in a new context, was. (Well that, and giving Jonny Lee Miller the hour-a-week screen-time he should be guaranteed for life. If season three doesn’t happen, just give the man a stool, a phone book, and a spotlight).
The first five minutes of The Marchioness, in...
Elementary mines a classic Conan Doyle story for this week's episode. Here's Frances' review of The Marchioness...
This review contains spoilers.
2.7 The Marchioness
What none of us wanted from Elementary was a buddy cop procedural randomly studded with chunks of the Conan-Doyle canon. Chucking speckle-banded snakes and dogs who didn’t bark into cases that could otherwise be solved by Detective A. N Other and his sidekick pal wasn’t the point of a new take on Sherlock Holmes. Translating the mores and idioms of the late-nineteenth century into the early twenty-first, and seeing a now-archetypal character in a new context, was. (Well that, and giving Jonny Lee Miller the hour-a-week screen-time he should be guaranteed for life. If season three doesn’t happen, just give the man a stool, a phone book, and a spotlight).
The first five minutes of The Marchioness, in...
- 11/8/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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