A new incarnation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Homes is coming to Prime Video. Amazon MGM Studios has announced that Guy Ritchie will executive produce and direct Young Sherlock, which will feature Hero Fiennes Tiffin in the title role. The new show is not related to the 1985 Young Sherlock Holmes movie by director Barry Levinson and screenwriter Chris Columbus. Instead, the source material draws from Andy Lane's Young Sherlock Holmes novels. The project marks a return to the character for Ritchie, who previously directed two Sherlock Holmes movies with Robert Downey, Jr. as the famous detective. Young Sherlock will present a new origin for the character, which starts when he is 19-years old. The show's official description describes Sherlock as "disgraced, raw, unfiltered, and unformed" when he is thrust into a murder case at Oxford University in which he is one of the suspects. From there, Sherlock discovers "a globe-trotting conspiracy that will change his life forever." Continue Reading at GameSpot
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