The 'X-Men' actor plays an aging version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective who revisits an old case during his retirement.
- Mar 5, 2015
AceShowbiz - "Mr. Holmes" debuts a teaser trailer. Ian McKellen plays the lead character, an elderly Sherlock Holmes who returns from Japan, where, in search of a 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 (Laura Linney) and her young son (Milo Parker). Grappling with the diminishing powers of his mind, Holmes comes to rely upon the boy as he revisits an unsolved case which forced him into retirement, and searches for answers to the mysteries of life and love - before it's too late.
Due in the U.K. on June 19, the film is based on Mitch Cullen's novel "Slight Trick of the Mind" that puts a twist on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional sleuth. It reunites McKellen with "Gods & Monsters" director Bill Condon.
