Henry Cavill Will Play Sherlock Holmes In Millie Bobby Brown

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In the span of a decade, we’ve had two mostly-serious Sherlock Holmes movies from Guy Ritchie (with a 3rd on the way in which), an Ian McKellen car about an growing older Mr. Holmes, a vastly well-liked British tv sequence that updates the character for contemporary occasions, and a poorly obtained comedy that includes Will Ferrell. Despite all of this, the Millie Bobby Brown-led Enola Holmes is ready to proceed the nice detective’s story, albeit by means of the lens of his youngest sister. Even so, a narrative concerning the Holmes household nonetheless wants its Sherlock.

Enter Henry Cavill, whose life after Superman contains Netflix’s upcoming The Witcher sequence and the deerstalker cap-wearing detective himself. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 36-year-old actor will play Sherlock Holmes in director Harry Bradbeer’s upcoming adaptation of the Nancy Springer novels:

Springer’s e-book sequence, which started with The Case of the Missing Marquess in 2006, is comprised of six books and tells the story of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes’ a lot youthful sister, Enola, who seems to be a extremely succesful detective in her personal proper.

Alongside Brown’s Enola and Cavill’s Sherlock, Helena Bonham Carter will reportedly play the previous’s mom. As for fellow Holmes sibling Mycroft, the half’s casting both stays an energetic course of or a carefully guarded secret. Meanwhile, the Man of Steel and Justice League actor’s involvement begs the query… Is there ever going to be a Man from U.N.C.L.E. sequel? I’m not kidding!

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)