Sir Ian McKellen is to play detective Sherlock Holmes in a new film from the director of Twilight: Breaking Dawn。伊恩·麥凱倫爵士將在一部新電影中扮演著名偵探夏洛克·福爾摩斯，該電影將由《暮光之城：破曉》的導(dǎo)演執(zhí)導(dǎo)。

A Slight Trick of the Mind will be set in 1947 and see a retired Holmes living a quiet life in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and her son。這部改編自同名小說《A Slight Trick of the Mind》的電影情節(jié)設(shè)定在1947年，退休的福爾摩斯在蘇塞克斯郡的鄉(xiāng)下過著平靜的生活，陪在他身邊是他的女管家和她的兒子。

The sleuth is haunted by an unsolved case from 50 years ago however, remembering only a heated incident with a volatile husband and a secret bond with his wife。老年的福爾摩斯被50年前的一樁懸案困擾，他只記得一些片段：和喜怒無常的男子的對峙，還有和對方妻子的神秘聯(lián)系。

The film will be director by Bill Condon and based on a novel by Mitch Cullin, with the screenplay coming from Jeffrey Hatcher, according to Screen Daily。根據(jù)《銀幕日報》的報道，電影改編自米契·柯林的同名小說，將由著名導(dǎo)演比爾·康頓執(zhí)導(dǎo)，劇本則由編劇杰弗里·哈徹撰寫。

The character of Sherlock Holmes has been enjoying a renaissance of late, with Benedict Cumberbatch’s version of the detective for the BBC proving hugely popular with viewers。近幾年夏洛克·福爾摩斯這個人物似乎又復(fù)蘇了，本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇在BBC迷你劇《神探夏洛克》中扮演的“卷福”受到了觀眾的巨大歡迎。

A Slight Trick of the Mind will be Condon and McKellen’s second movie together following Gods and Monster, which resulted in a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Condon and a Best Actor nomination for the Hobbit actor。在《眾神與野獸》之后，《A Slight Trick of the Mind》將會是比爾·康頓和伊恩·麥凱倫的第二次合作。之前合作的電影《眾神與野獸》為比爾·康頓在奧斯卡贏得了一座最佳改編劇本獎杯，伊恩·麥凱倫也獲得了最佳男主角的提名。