Full Trailer For MR. HOLMES Shows Sherlock Solving One Last Case

Our society may have finally reached peak Sherlock Holmes. There's the fantastic BBC series starring Benedict Cumberbatch, the CBS procedural starring Jonny Lee Miller, the Robert Downey Jr. movies, and now Mr. Holmes, a delightful-looking mystery from director Bill Condon that stars Sir Ian McKellen in the title role. This full trailer for the movie reveals that it's actually far more meta than I thought, with McKellen's Holmes going into a theater and watching a movie that's ostensibly about the adventures he once had with John Watson. There are some other nice self-aware touches, too, such as him saying he never wore the famous deerstalker hat and prefers a cigar to a pipe, so aside from the main plot of this movie (which concerns one final mystery to be solved), the film could serve as a nice commentary on the humanization of legendary figures.

I'm also hoping that the final lines of this trailer don't give away any big revelations in the movie, but we'll have to wait and see the full film before we judge. Mr. Holmes arrives in theaters on July 17th.

MR. HOLMES is a new twist on the world’s most famous detective. In 1947, an aging Sherlock Holmes returns from a journey to Japan, where, in search of a rare plant with powerful restorative qualities, he has witnessed the devastation of nuclear warfare.  Now, in his remote seaside farmhouse, Holmes faces the end of his days tending to his bees, with only the company of his housekeeper and her young son, Roger.  Grappling with the diminishing powers of his mind, Holmes comes to rely upon the boy as he revisits the circumstances of the unsolved case that forced him into retirement, and searches for answers to the mysteries of life and love – before it's too late.