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"Laura Linney will star opposite Sir Ian McKellen in an upcoming Sherlock Holmes film. McKellen is to play the ageing detective in A Slight Trick of the Mind, a film based on Mitch Cullin&amp;#039;s novel with a screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher.  Bill Condon will direct the drama based on the famous Arthur Conan Doyle character. Linney will play Holmes&amp;#039;s housekeeper Mrs Munro in the film, having previously written theses about Sherlock Holmes. &amp;quot;I was obsessed with Sherlock Holmes as a young kid,&amp;quot; Linney told Entertainment Weekly. &amp;quot;You know how some people are into Dungeons &amp;amp; Dragons? I was into Sherlock Holmes. I loved the atmosphere of the stories. I loved the intrigue, his personality. Bill had no idea.&amp;quot; Linney previously worked with Condon in 2004&amp;#039;s Kinsey, which earned her a second Oscar nomination. They have since worked together on The Fifth Estate.  A Slight Trick of the Mind is set in 1947 and follows Holmes living out his twilight years in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and her son. The detective finds himself haunted by an unsolved case from 50 years ago, remembering only a confrontation with a volatile husband and secret bond with his wife. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a really great mystery about who Sherlock Holmes is, but it&amp;#039;s also a lovely, delicate movie about what happens as you get older,&amp;quot; Condon said. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m looking forward to the combined talent, skills and smarts,&amp;quot; he said of Linney and McKellen. &amp;quot;Both of them are incredibly detail-oriented and do an amazing amount of work before they get to set, and then they dive off the board and become their characters.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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