Guy Ritchie to direct, produce 'Young Sherlock' series
May 30 (UPI) -- Guy Ritchie -- who made two Sherlock Holmes movies starring Robert Downey Jr. -- is set to direct and produce a series about the legendary detective at a younger age.
Hero Fiennes Tiffin -- whose credits include Ritchie's The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and The Woman King -- will headline Young Sherlock.
The show is inspired by Andy Lane's book by the same name.
"In Young Sherlock, we're going to see an exhilarating new version of the detective everyone thinks they know in a way they've never imagined before," Ritchie said in a statement."We're going to crack open this enigmatic character, find out what makes him tick, and learn how he becomes the genius we all love."
The sleuth, who dates back to stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the late 19th century, has been played by Henry Cavill, Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in recent iterations.
