The new UK trailer for director
Bill Condon and writer Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptation of Mitch Cullin's novel A
Slight Trick of the Mind, has been released online and it delves deeper into the
plot of the film, which sees a 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes played by Ian
McKellen, having to deal with his deteriorating mind, while trying to solve his
greatest mystery yet, with the help of his housekeeper's young son Roger (Milo
Parker).
Mr. Holmes also
stars Laura Linney (Mrs. Munro),
Hiroyuki Sanada (Tamiki Umezaki), Colin Starkey (Dr. Watson), Sarah Crowden
(Mrs. Hudson), Hattie Morahan (Ann Kelmot), Patrick Kennedy (Thomas Kelmot),
Roger Allam (Dr. Barrie), Philip Davis (Inspector Gilbert), and Nicholas Rowe
(Matinee 'Sherlock').
Mr. Holmes is
scheduled to premiere on June 19 in the UK, and July 17 in the US.
MR. HOLMES is a new twist on
the world’s most famous detective.1947, an aging Sherlock Holmes returns from a
journey to Japan, where, in search of a rare plant with powerful restorative
qualities, he has witnessed the devastation of nuclear warfare. Now, in
his remote seaside farmhouse, Holmes faces the end of his days tending to his
bees, with only the company of his housekeeper and her young son, Roger.
Grappling with the diminishing powers of his mind, Holmes comes to rely upon
the boy as he revisits the circumstances of the unsolved case that forced him
into retirement, and searches for answers to the mysteries of life and love –
before it’s too late.
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