Sherlock: 8 Other Alternative Sherlock Holmes Adaptations
When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, will probably be made into a Sherlock Holmes adaptation.
In the last month, Sherlock, the BBC's hugely successful reinvention of Arthur Conan Doyles stories, hit our screens for a third run proving that even though Holmes was created nearly 130 years ago, the character can still be used in thrilling new ways. Nowadays alone, Sherlock is accompanied by Sherlock Holmes action films, courtesy of Guy Ritchie, and, in CBS' Elementary, a Sherlock Holmes police procedural set in contemporary New York. Plus, there's an upcoming film starring Sir Ian McKellen as an elderly version of the Great Detective. However, this is just the tip of the deerstalker hat. There have been many imaginative, off-the-wall and just downright weird versions of Sherlock Holmes and his friends and foes over the years and across film and television. Now, let's peer through the pea-souper fog and have a look at eight other alternative Sherlock Holmes adaptations...