Ian McKellen can now add Sherlock Holmes to the numerous roles that he has played in geekdom. He will be playing an old Sherlock Holmes in the movie adaption of the novel A Slight Trick Of The Mind. The announcement was made at this years Toronto Film Festival and you can read the press release below.
ICON/AI FILMS TO FINANCE AND CO-PRODUCE
A SLIGHT TRICK OF THE MIND, DIRECTED BY BILL CONDON
AND STARRING IAN MCKELLEN
Anne Carey of Archer Gray Productions to co-produce with Iain Canning
and Emile Sherman of See-Saw Films
FilmNation to handle international sales
TORONTO - Thursday 5 September 2013. AI Film, the production arm of
the Icon UK Group owned by Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries, has
announced it is financing and co-producing
A SLIGHT TRICK OF THE MIND to be directed by Oscar®winner
Bill Condon and starring
Ian McKellen in the lead role.
Set to film next April in the UK, the film will be produced by
Anne Carey, producer of Anton Corbijn’s
The American, through her new venture Archer Gray Productions,
Iain Canning and
Emile Sherman of See-Saw Films, producers of the Oscar®-winning British feature
The King’s Speech,
with
Aviv Giladi, CEO of Icon/AI Film, and
Len Blavatnik exec producing.
Christine Langan, Head of BBC Films, is an exec producer on behalf of BBC Films which is also co-financing.
Based on a novel by Mitch Cullin, A
SLIGHT TRICK OF THE MIND, the screenplay is being adapted by
Jeffrey Hatcher whose credits include
The Duchess, Casanova and
Stage Beauty.
In 1947, Sherlock Holmes, long retired, lives in a sleepy Sussex
village with his housekeeper and her amateur-sleuthing son. But far from
living out a peaceful retirement, he is haunted by an unsolved case
from fifty years ago. He remembers only fragments: a confrontation with
an angry husband, a secret bond with his beautiful but unstable wife.
With his legendary mental powers on the wane, and without his old
sidekick Watson, Holmes is faced with the toughest case of his life – a
case that might finally reveal to him the mysteries of the human heart.
Ian McKellen tweeted a photo of himself as Sherlock Holmes in a new movie called Mr. Holmes. The movie sees a 93 year old Sherlock Holmes taking on a new case. Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters) will direct this movie which is slated for 2015 release.
