McKellen Playng Sherlock Holmes For Condon

Sir Ian McKellen will reunite with his "Gods and Monsters" director Bill Condon for the retired Sherlock Holmes tale "A Slight Trick of the Mind" says Screen Daily

Set in 1947, McKellen plays a long-retired incarnation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes. Holmes now lives in a sleepy Sussex village with his housekeeper and her amateur-sleuthing son. It's not a peaceful retirement though. The detective is haunted by an unsolved fifty year old case involving an angry husband and his unstable wife, a case of which he only remembers fragments.

Jeffrey Hatcher is writing the adapted script from the novel by author Mitch Cullin.

Anne Carey, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Aviv Giladi will produce the movie.

Production begins next April in the UK.