Sir Ian McKellen is to play a retired Sherlock Holmes
in a new film by Oscar-winning director Bill Condon.
The film, A
Slight Trick Of The Mind, will be adapted from Mitch Cullin's novel of the same
name.
Set in 1947,
Sir Ian will play an elderly Sherlock, who is still trying to crack an
unsolved, 50-year-old case.
It will reunite
Sir Ian and Condon, who previously worked together on the 1998 drama Gods and
Monsters, for which the actor received an Oscar nomination.
Following Gods
and Monsters, Sir Ian went on to star as Gandalf in the Oscar-winning Lord of
the Rings trilogy, a role he will reprise in the second instalment in the
Hobbit series due for release in December.
Condon's other
projects include Dreamgirls, the last two Twilight movies and his latest, The
Fifth Estate, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange.
According to
the Hollywood Reporter, Condon will start shooting A Slight Trick Of The Mind
in April 2014 in the UK.
Sir Ian is
joining a long list of actors to have played Sherlock, including Robert Downey
Jr and Jonny Lee Miller in the US TV series Elementary.
A current BBC
adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories sees Cumberbatch play a
modern-day version of the detective.
Source: BBC
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