Guy Ritchie is set to direct all eight episodes of Prime Video’s Young Sherlock series, with Hero Fiennes Tiffin as Sherlock Holmes

Deadline reports that Hero Fiennes Tiffin of the After film series has signed on to star in the Young Sherlock series that has been ordered by Prime Video – and to clear up any feasible confusion ahead of it can arise: no, this is not a series reboot or continuation of the 1985 film Young Sherlock Holmes, which came to us from director Barry Levinson, screenwriter Chris Columbus, and producer Steven Spielberg. Rather, this is an adaptation of the Young Sherlock series of novels that author Andrew Lane began writing in 2010. That series was a response to the good results Charlie Higson was possessing with his series of Young James Bond novels. Guy Ritchie is on board to direct and executive make all eight episodes of Young Sherlock‘s first season. Ritchie, of course, has prior Sherlock Holmes experience, having directed Robert Downey Jr. as the iconic character in the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes and its 2011 sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Since this series is an adaptation of Lane’s perform, it is almost certainly not connected to Ritchie’s films.

Written and executive made by showrunner Matthew Parkhill (Deep State), Young Sherlock is mentioned to be an irreverent, action-packed origin story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved detective in an explosive re-imagining of this iconic character. At age 19, Sherlock Holmes is disgraced, raw, unfiltered, and unformed, when he finds himself caught up in a murder mystery at Oxford University which threatens his freedom. Diving into his 1st-ever case with a wild lack of discipline, Sherlock manages to unravel a globe-trotting conspiracy that will modify his life forever.

Ritchie supplied the following statement: “In Young Sherlock we’re going to see an exhilarating new version of the detective absolutely everyone thinks they know in a way they’ve under no circumstances imagined ahead of. We’re going to crack open this enigmatic character, discover out what tends to make him tick, and find out how he becomes the genius we all really like.“

Simon Kelton, Ivan Atkinson, Simon Maxwell, Dhana Gilbert, Colin Wilson, and Marc Resteghini serve as executive producers with Parkhill. Harriet Creelman is co-executive producer.

Vernon Sanders, head of tv at Amazon MGM Studios, had this to say: “This thrilling, new chapter about 1 of the world’s greatest-identified literary characters, will delight our international shoppers with its captivating storytelling. With the brilliant inventive group, led by Guy Ritchie and Matthew Parkhill, we will discover untold mysteries of how young Sherlock located his way to a life of truth-in search of.“

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