Lars Mikkelsen is turning 50 this year... so I think I will go on that; it fits into my idea perfectly! 

Thank you so much for your insight; it's very helpful to build this story! 

Also, do you reckon it becomes common knowledge how Magnussen died? I.e. Sherlock killing him?

Here's one of his newspapers as shown in "Many Happy Returns":

I suppose the obvious connection to real life would be a Rupert Murdoch character. Particularly given whats happened in the UK over the past few years. i.e, Leveson Inquiry, closure of the News of the World, phone hacking scandal, etc.
The 'pissing' scene. Has been linked to a number of newspaper editors over the years.
The satirical comedy 'Hacks' 2012 shows some of the methods employed by a Magnussen character. 
 

Ah Hanibal you mean! Seriously I would love to see Magnussen and Dr. Lector together sometime... that would be deadly!

I think I have about pieced my version of Magnussen together for my fan fic... But I can't say too much in case anyone at all is reading my stuff. It's a major plot twist.

dartmoordoggers wrote:

I suppose the obvious connection to real life would be a Rupert Murdoch character. Particularly given whats happened in the UK over the past few years. i.e, Leveson Inquiry, closure of the News of the World, phone hacking scandal, etc.
The 'pissing' scene. Has been linked to a number of newspaper editors over the years.
The satirical comedy 'Hacks' 2012 shows some of the methods employed by a Magnussen character. 
 

I know the News of the World and some of Murdoch's team obtained information in sleazy ways, but they did use it to get money or favors in exchange for NOT publishing?

Since I don't follow celebrity gossip much, I'm not sure what the deal was with Prince Harry and the other royals whose privacy was invaded...but another web site said something happened that was a lot like SiB and HLV.

It would have been easy to make this character a little more ambiguous...to raise more of a question as to whether the people he was holding something over deserved our sympathy or whether they deserved to be exposed, such as MP who was indicted for corruption.

But the acting and writing, in this case, did a pretty good job of convincing us of CAM's evilness.

Of course, most of the blackmail material in the original Milverton story wouldn't be scandalous today (in the case of one client, not even premarital sex, necessarily, just a love letter written to someone before the client met her current fiance). Through a modern lens, you feel like, the victims would be better off if he published...they would see that everyone they were hiding from was also hiding something.

I was glad at that least they upped the ante and had the modern CAM focusing on more serious things (i.e., the sexual matter involved someone underage.)

 

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