‘Sherlock’ Co-Creator Says Team Would Still “Like To Make A Film” Version Of Hit Benedict Cumberbatch Series

Sherlock co-creator and star Mark Gatiss has said he and the team behind the popular detective drama are still interested in adapting the series for the big screen.

Gatiss, who created the show with Steven Moffat, was quizzed on a Sherlock film adaptation last night by Deadline’s Baz Bamigboye on the green carpet at the 2024 Olivier Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

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“We’d like to make a film but trying to get everyone together is very difficult,” Gatiss told Deadline, adding that if you want a concrete answer on a film you’ll have to “you’ll have to ask Benedict [Cumberbatch] and Martin [Freeman].”

Gatiss expressed similar plans to adapt the show into a film last July when he told the Guardian that a Sherlock film was “the natural thing to do” following the conclusion of the series.

“People think you can just wave a wand,” Gatiss said when asked on a timeline for a Sherlock feature. “It’s incredibly difficult to get people interested and get films made. I remember talking to Edgar Wright about Ant-Man, into which he put eight years of his life and then didn’t make it. Eight years is not short of a decade.”

Gatiss is also the co-creator of the BBC’s The League of Gentlemen and Netflix/BBC’s Dracula. Last week, Deadline revealed that he is writing and starring in Bookish, a new British TV drama about a bookshop owner who helps police solve crimes. The series will be a six-part series for the UKTV crime drama network Alibi set in post-war London in 1946.

The plot will follow Gabriel Book (Gatiss), an “erudite and unconventional” sleuth who cracks mysterious cases from his antiquated bookshop, using the thousands of books that line his shelves to provide him with the knowledge that he needs. Around him are a gathering of “loveable, damaged misfits who he informally protects, cajoles and mentors.”

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