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radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-05-22/sherlock-game-is-now-benedict-cumberbatch-mark-gatiss-steven-moffat-video/
I am a fan of these two, the film looks daft should be fun.
EDIT : Seems Millie Bobby Brown had the same idea.
The visual quality looks great. I saw the film earlier this year and can report that it's the most visually impressive adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, and certainly among the better adaptations. If you're a Holmes fan, you should see it.
Here's my review:
(3.5 stars out of 5)
This is the best-directed version of the Hound of the Baskervilles, though to be honest no great directors have tackled the story. Der Hund von Baskerville also has the honor of being the last silent Sherlock Holmes film. The format didn't really suit the Holmes stories, which rely heavily on dialogue and exposition. To avoid excessive intertitles, silent adaptations had to simplify the material and stress action over cerebration (the walking stick deduction scene is naturally absent in this version).
But Der Hund is unique in going whole hog for a German gothic/expressionist proto-noir style. Baskerville Hall becomes an old dark house, like the ones in The Bat or The Cat and the Canary, with shadows galore, eyes peeping out of statues, trap doors, and hidden rooms sealed at the push of the button. And since this is a late silent, we're treated to voluptuous camera movement and eccentrically creative camera angles.
Carlyle Blackwell, an American matinee idol back in 1914, was imported to play Sherlock Holmes, introduced as "the genial detective." Fortunately Blackwell's confident performance is not entirely genial, though he does play up the smugly amused side of Holmes's character. Russian George Seroff plays a puppyish, plump, mustache-less Watson. The character was often a non-entity in silent Holmes movies, but here he plays a major role, albeit a comical one. Stapleton is played by Fritz Rasp, that great gonzo gargoyle of German cinema.
For decades Der Hund was thought lost, until a print turned up Poland. Sadly the film is missing several expository scenes in reels two and three that cover Watson's investigation at Baskerville Hall. These are compensated for by illustrated titles, but their absence still leaves the mystery shortened and the story lopsided.
Der Hund is a mostly faithful adaptation of Doyle; it also shares strategies with later versions. Like the 1968 BBC production with Peter Cushing, it starts with the suspects gathered at Baskerville Hall. As in the Hammer version, Holmes gets trapped in an underground passage. And Laura Lyons meets the same fate as in the 1982 TV film starring Ian Richardson.
Low budgets are the bane of many screen Hounds, but not this one. Baskerville Hall is opulently furnished and the moor outside, though created in a disused hangar, is a convincing wasteland of scraggly scrub. The hound is played by a mottled Great Dane, usually shown in extreme close-up (perhaps to make it look more imposing). The other settings are modern—a motorcar pulls up to Baker Street and Holmes wears a leather trench coat alongside his deerstalker.
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/rocketman-dexter-fletcher-sherlock-holmes-3-1203233376/
I was hoping Guy Ritchie would finish what he started. Oh well. I’m going to keep it on my radar still.
Glad to see SH3 is now back in business! But was hoping for Guy Ritchie to direct it.
Why is that? I´ve read About two thirds of ACD´s SH stories, and I find RDJ´s Interpretation quite feasible.
2020's afoot!
When Enola Holmes - Sherlock's teen sister- discovers her mother missing, she sets off to find her, becoming a super-sleuth in her own right as she outwits her famous brother and unravels a dangerous conspiracy around a mysterious young Lord.
https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2020/07/18/out-now-sherlock-holmes-magazine-1/
https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/sherlock/sherlock-presentation-pack
Oh cool, @Gerard, thanks. just ordered mine.
Cool Bartitsu move, young lady.
Just got it. Marvellous edition. Going to order n2 for sure.
I agree. I'm in for the second issue too. =D>
https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1326383/johnny-depp-sherlock-film-role-robert-downey-jr
Still apt for Bond, IMO ;) More so now, I mean, if Supes can be Sherlock, why not Bond as well?