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In recent years, we've had uber-gay action-hero Sherlock Holmes, modern-day Britain Sherlock Holmes, modern-day genderbent transatlantic Sherlock Holmes, and Sherlock Holmes with dinosaurs.

I'm personally much more interested in adaptations like these that do something new and different with canon (when I want canon, I read canon. Canon is perfectly satisfying to me, so more straightish adaptations of it aren't anything I'm exactly desperate for.) So assuming another adaptation in a few years with another new different twist, not a straight adaptation of canon like Granada or the BBC radio dramas, what kind of new different twist would you like to see?

btw, please no sarcastic "not Richie/BBC/CBS/Dinosaurs" rants. Actually come up with an idea for what new thing they should do, not for what already-done thing they should avoid.

I suddenly have a mad desire for a standalone non-canon-based film, perhaps somewhat in the vein of The Seven Per-Cent Solution, where Holmes has to investigate Watson's murder, trying (or totally not trying at all) to separate vengeance from crime-solving. Or vice-versa (maybe post-Reichenbach).

+1000000000 would watch in a heartbeat.

Oh fuck yes. To both of these.

Edited 2013-11-02 22:20 (UTC)

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SHERLOCK HOLMES WITH ROBOTS.

Or even better,

SHERLOCK HOLMES WITH HUMONGOUS MECHA.

Excuse you. http://youtu.be/VyGAc-OLAiQ

Before I click, I'm guessing it's a link to Robot Watson from Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century.

Re: What twist should the next Sherlock Holmes adaptation have?

kaijinscendre - 2013-11-03 02:23 (UTC) - Expand

Genderbent high school/college student Sherlock Holmes with not-genderbent James Watson, and they have an amazing platonic friendship.

I know it's a mistake, but I think I'd watch Holmes getting along with a co-discoverer of the DNA structure. It is so brilliantly random.

*facepalm*
I didn't even notice until you pointed it out. I totally blame House for this.

google "the adventures of shirley holmes".

Genderbent Holmes with un-genderbent Watson. In Victorian times.

I wanna see them make this work without massive historical or genderfail. IT WOULD BE SO AWESOME.

Also, a movie where Holmes and Watson are major supporting characters, but are not the protagonists.

Also, a movie where Holmes and Watson are major supporting characters, but are not the protagonists.

Sounds intriguing!

Re: What twist should the next Sherlock Holmes adaptation have?

intrigueing - 2013-11-02 21:10 (UTC) - Expand

Re: What twist should the next Sherlock Holmes adaptation have?

loracarol - 2013-11-02 21:19 (UTC) - Expand

I really like both of these.

The second one reminds me of how much I loved Gotham Central, where you basically had a police procedural that happened to take place in Gotham City and Batman and Co. were running around in the background.

Junky Holmes. In modern times. Set in America. A Holmes who is an active drug user and addict with serious psychological problems, he's living in a shitty part of town in a messy, crappy apartment, but he's still a genius who's trying to solve crimes, often the crimes of the rich and the famous. Really play up the class angles and contrasts as much as possible.

Horror! Not necessarily supernatural horror, but something that really plays up the atmospheric elements of Victorian London in a horror-like story.

YES PLEASE. And I want a decent, scary Jack the Ripper adaptation, okay? (yes, I'm still bitter about A Study in Terror and Murder by Decree)

Yesssss. This.

I'd kind of like a "supernatural" Sherlock Holmes, like they go investigating zombies and vampires and stuff in Victorian London, or they come across cosmic horrors.

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insanenoodlyguy - 2013-11-03 18:11 (UTC) - Expand

Re: What twist should the next Sherlock Holmes adaptation have?

(Anonymous) - 2013-11-03 20:47 (UTC) - Expand

Steampunk android Sherlock Holmes.

Angsty serious Holmes. Holmes and Watson live together, investigate crime and love one another, yet they can't be lovers for some tragic reason (not homosexuality). The tragedy isn't the main focus, the investigation is, yet their platonic affair binds the episodes together. They love working together.

An atmospheric combo of From Hell (the graphic novel, not the movie) and the movie Somewhere in Time, with HG Wells' time machine initially failing, and instead he becomes a Baker Street client, and the three of them have to brave the Whitechapel district, as it was portrayed in From Hell to bring down the JtR character from Somewhere in Time with optional time travel once old Herbert George gets his time machine working again,

There's an uber-gay Sherlock Holmes? Because, if there were, that would be cool and they should do it. If you're just talking about the queer-baiting Ritchie-verse, GTFO.

Hey, did you read the "no rants" bit or not? Actually come up with your own ideas.

Also, nitpick: being "uber-gay" is impossible for a character. It's only possible for a story. Unless you mean the flaming too-gay-to-function descriptor of a person, which isn't the same.

Psycho!Holmes. Who is killing people and framing other people for the killings. And Watson figures it out.

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