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Sherlock Holmes Makes a Comeback
The latest version of the character will be adorned with latest modern technologies like computers, MP3 players and mobile phones, and minus his signature clothes.
The flick is a 60-minute film and will show the crime-fighter in his trademark pipe-clench and as an injured veteran from conflict in Afghanistan. This was the similar plot of the original series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
However, Gatiss explains that the modern-day Holmes will not be surprising. "When you read the stories, you realise Holmes is an extraordinary modern man in a modern metropolitan London," the Scotsman quoted him as saying.
"They weren't period stories to the people that were reading them, so we worked off exactly the same principle. We are not only keeping the essential character of Holmes, we are restoring it," he added.
On the contrary, David Stuart-Davies believes that the detective's natural powers will be compromised in the period of DNA and CCTV. Davies is credited to author books and plays based on the celebrated fiction character. He said: "I suspect it may well work, but one thing that does concern me is that Holmes had to rely on his own brain power. Now, if Holmes were trapped in darkest Dartmoor with the hound of the Baskervilles coming towards him, he would simply be able to call for help on his mobile phone." AGENCIES
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