Here's Your First Look at Millie Bobby Brown Playing Sherlock's Little Sister in Enola Holmes
The game is afoot once again. While Benedict Cumberbatch's iteration of Sherlock Holmes isn't set to return to TV screens anytime soon, a new film about Sherlock's sister Enola is set to premiere on Netflix later this year on September 23. Watch the first trailer up top, then keep reading for everything we know so far.
The cast is stacked.
In addition to Brown in the title role, Henry Cavill (aka Superman) will play Sherlock, and Sam Claflin (aka Finnick Odair) will play Mycroft. Helena Bonham Carter will play their mother.
It's based on a book series.
...but not necessarily the one you might think. In addition to taking inspiration from Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective novels, the movie is more specifically based on The Enola Holmes Mysteries, a young adult series of detective novels by author Nancy Springer.
Set in England in 1884, the story centers around the disappearance of Enola's mother, and the mysteries that begin to unravel as Enola searches for her.
The film is surprisingly controversial.
Doyle's estate is taking Netflix to court in a copyright lawsuit. While the character of Sherlock Holmes and Doyle's stories written before 1923 entered into the public domain in 2014, the estate did retain the rights to Doyle's last 10 stories. And per the Hollywood Reporter, "in the latest lawsuit, the Doyle Estate alleges that the difference between the public domain stories and the copyrighted ones is emotions."
The complaint reads in part:
After the stories that are now in the public domain, and before the Copyrighted Stories, the Great War happened. In World War I Conan Doyle lost his eldest son, Arthur Alleyne Kingsley. Four months later he lost his brother, Brigadier-general Innes Doyle. When Conan Doyle came back to Holmes in the Copyrighted Stories between 1923 and 1927, it was no longer enough that the Holmes character was the most brilliant rational and analytical mind. Holmes needed to be human. The character needed to develop human connection and empathy.
You Might Also Like