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    September 5, 2013 4:03 pm  #1

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    Sir Ian McKellen to play retired Sherlock Holmes

    New Sherlock Holmes adaptation with Ian McKellen based on Mitch Cullen's book "A Slight Trick of the Mind".

    Short summary of the book here:
    "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."


    http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/09/sir-ian-mckellen-is-sherlock-holmes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IHearOfSherlock+%28I+Hear+of+Sherlock+Everywhere%29

    This sounds quite wonderful, I love Ian McKellen

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    September 5, 2013 4:30 pm  #2

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    Re: Sir Ian McKellen to play retired Sherlock Holmes

    Interesting project.

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    September 6, 2013 2:50 pm  #3

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    Re: Sir Ian McKellen to play retired Sherlock Holmes

    Sound interesting indeed. I really like this actor, whatever if he plays a villain or a good guy he's great.

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    September 6, 2013 2:54 pm  #4

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    Re: Sir Ian McKellen to play retired Sherlock Holmes

    This seems to be an interesting take on SH. I would love to see Sir Ian in the part. 

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    September 6, 2013 3:21 pm  #5

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    Re: Sir Ian McKellen to play retired Sherlock Holmes

    I approve this. 

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    September 6, 2013 3:59 pm  #6

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    Re: Sir Ian McKellen to play retired Sherlock Holmes

    Hopefully we'll see Benedict as an old Sherlock, one day!

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    September 6, 2013 4:26 pm  #7

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    Yeah, but they said they're then gonna write their own stuff.

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    September 7, 2013 3:25 am  #8

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    An excerpt from a short synopsis of the novel says:

    Holmes--"a genius in whom scientific curiosity is raised to the status of heroic passion"--is famous for his powers of deduction. His world is made up of hard evidence and uncontestable facts, his observations and conclusions unsullied by personal feelings, until novelist Cullin goes behind the cold, unsentimental surface to reveal for the first time the inner world of an obsessively private man.
    http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm/book_number/1557/a-slight-trick-of-the-mind


    I'm very much interested about this. I would like to see SH in an Oscar winning movie for best picture, best actor, best director and more categories!

    BTW any one read the book?

     
     

    September 7, 2013 3:28 am  #9

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    Awesome, awesome and more awesome.

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    September 7, 2013 6:32 am  #10

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    This should be really, really good! From X-Men to Sherlock Holmes. An actor's life is certainly not dull.

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    September 7, 2013 12:11 pm  #11

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    Wow, sounds interesting! I haven't even heard of that book but I'm looking forward to seeing the movie :]

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    September 10, 2013 10:22 am  #12

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    OMG skldjgkljsklgjd really excited about that. Any new Sherlock Holmes project causes me near delirious excitement.

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    October 19, 2013 9:49 pm  #13

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    Sir Ian... Gandalf? Am I thinking of the right one?

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    October 19, 2013 9:57 pm  #14

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    Yes.

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    October 20, 2013 8:00 pm  #15

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    Gandalf. Magneto. Yes.

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    October 22, 2013 3:08 am  #16

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    I like Ian. He's a good actor. I would check this out simpy because I like him. But regradless, the BBC's Sherlock is *THE* definitive Sherlock experience, imo.

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    October 22, 2013 5:52 am  #17

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    Re: Sir Ian McKellen to play retired Sherlock Holmes

    I agree, but an older one will be interesting too..

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    December 21, 2013 4:43 am  #18

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    Re: Sir Ian McKellen to play retired Sherlock Holmes

    Very much looking forward to this. Love Ian McKellen. His King Lear is beyond unbelievable (immortalized on DVD) and his Macbeth, from back in the day, was pretty darn amazing too.

    And. Of course Sherlock would have bees.

    Edit: Oops. Did not know Sherlock having bees was an established practice! 

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    January 10, 2014 12:51 pm  #19

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    I can't imagine this being anything other than excellent.  With such a great actor and subject I'll be in line to see this as soon as it's out! 

     

    January 27, 2014 12:37 am  #20

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    Re: Sir Ian McKellen to play retired Sherlock Holmes

    SusiGo wrote:

    This seems to be an interesting take on SH. I would love to see Sir Ian in the part. 

    Sir Ian has played Holmes before:   http://www.nplh.co.uk/2/post/2013/01/what-a-lot-of-hot-air.html

     

     

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