“At this period of my life the good Watson had passed almost beyond my ken”*

Retirement Holmes

Sir Ian McKellen will play a retired Sherlock Holmes in a new film from The Fifth Estate and Breaking Dawn director Bill Condon. Titled A Slight Trick of the Mind, the film will be set in 1947 and follows Holmes living out his twilight years in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and her son.

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