It cannot be denied that Guy Ritchie be an efficient guy. When we still savor how much his series of The Gentlemen For Netflixthe British filmmaker has continued to accumulate projects since streaming as varied as The fountain of eternal youth (an adventure film for Apple) or gangster countrya series created in Paramount+. And he had time, in the meantime, to associate with Amazon Prime Video and recover an old character from his filmography.
Ritchie has directed two films Sherlock Holmes between 2009 and 2011, modernizing the character of Arthur Conan Doyle with the presence of Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Lawand heighten the action and adventure of the original stories.
The director must not have lost his affinity for these stories, since he returned to the work of Conan Doyle to create a sort of restart. And Ritchie did not take up the versions of Downey Jr. and Law (whom it was long rumored that they were going to play in a third opus, without us knowing anything more), preferring to go back in time.
That’s how he was born young sherlock. Basically a series posited as an imaginative story about the character’s origins, placing him as a restless student enrolled in the Oxford University in 1870. Although Conan Doyle never wrote anything like it, the idea of creating a prequel about Sherlock Holmes before he occupied that iconic Baker Street apartment has some history.
In 1985 Barry Levinson directed The secret of the pyramid. Originally titled young sherlock holmesit was imagined that Holmes and Watson had already been capable of solving mysteries from school age, and this is more or less what is proposed young sherlock. “Sherlock Holmes is a disgraced and unfiltered young man who finds himself involved in a murder case. His first case comes to light a conspiracy that goes around the world and it changes his life forever,” the synopsis reads.
“Set in 1870s Oxford and featuring overseas adventures, the series will chronicle the early antics of this lawless teenager who has yet to become Baker Street’s most famous resident.” young sherlock find Hero Fiennes Tiffin (seen in Afterthe successful romantic saga young adult) like the detective, surrounded by Joseph Fiennes, Natascha McElhone either Colin Firth.
Ritchie’s series (also responsible for directing the first two episodes) will present its first season, consisting of eight episodes, on March 4, 2026. Below you can enjoy the trailer.
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