Guy Ritchie has earned his right to grab our attention with each new project.  He delivered one of TV’s best series: The Gentlemen, and returned this year with MobLand, after his success with movie version of The Gentlemen, a slew of Jason Statham movies, one of cinema’s under-rated reboots: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and the best live-action version of an animated Disney movie: 2019’s Aladdin.  Ritchie’s secret is no news flash–he makes his stories stylish and fun.  Now the guy responsible for the two biggest Sherlock Holmes movies adapting the 138-year-old character–the 2009 Sherlock Holmes and 2011 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, both starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law–is revisiting the sleuth in his next series.  Young Sherlock is certainly in the realm of unoriginal ideas.  More pastiches of Arthur Doyle’s hero have filled bookstore shelves than for any other character.  So the movie will need to be that much better than the typical TV offering to be a success.  Okay–it looks like a mix of Young Indiana Jones and the J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot, but Ritchie seems up to the challenge.

Check out this trailer for Young Sherlock:

Young Sherlock stars Harry Potter’s Tom Riddle actor Hero Fiennes Tiffin as Holmes, uncle Joseph Fiennes as his dad, The Truman Show’s Natascha McElhone as his mom, Max Irons as brother Mycroft, Dónal Finn as Moriarty, along with Colin Firth and Zine Tseng.  It all starts streaming weekly on Prime Video beginning March 4, 2026.

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