Colin Firth joins the solid of Man Ritchie’s Younger Sherlock collection for Prime Video which stars Hero Fiennes Tiffin because the title character.
Man Ritchie is assembling fairly the solid for his upcoming Younger Sherlock collection, with Colin Firth introduced at the moment as the newest addition.
Impressed by Andy Lane’s Younger Sherlock Holmes novels, the Prime Video collection shall be “an irreverent, action-packed origin story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved detective in an explosive re-imagining of this iconic character. At age 19, Sherlock Holmes is disgraced, uncooked, unfiltered, and unformed, when he finds himself caught up in a homicide thriller at Oxford College which threatens his freedom. Diving into his first-ever case with a wild lack of self-discipline, Sherlock manages to unravel a globe-trotting conspiracy that may change his life ceaselessly.“
Hero Fiennes Tiffin will star because the younger detective, alongside Joseph Fiennes and Natasha McElhone as Sherlock’s mother and father and Zine Tseng as Princess Gulun Shou’an. Colin Firth will play Sir Bucephalus Hodge in Younger Sherlock.
Man Ritchie will government produce the mission and direct all eight episodes. “In Young Sherlock we’re going to see an exhilarating new version of the detective everyone thinks they know in a way they’ve never imagined before,” Ritchie mentioned in an announcement. “We’re going to crack open this enigmatic character, find out what makes him tick, and learn how he becomes the genius we all love.” The collection shall be scripted by Matthew Parkhill.
Vernon Sanders, head of tv at Amazon MGM Studios, mentioned, “This thrilling, new chapter about one of many world’s best-known literary characters, will delight our world prospects with its charming storytelling. With the sensible artistic workforce, led by Man Ritchie and Matthew Parkhill, we are going to discover untold mysteries of how younger Sherlock discovered his strategy to a lifetime of truth-seeking.“
Ritchie has loads of expertise with the world of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic detective, having directed Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Legislation in Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes: A Sport of Shadows. There’s been discuss of a third installment for over a decade, however the mission appears to be caught in growth hell. Ritchie mentioned final 12 months that the ball was in Downey Jr.’s courtroom.
