The first trailer has been released for Mr. Holmes, starring Ian McKellen as the legendary fictional detective at 93 years old. Indiewire noted that Bill Condon's movie, "freely adapted" from Mitch Cullin's novel A Slight Trick of the Mind, "reflects upon the interplay between truth and legend, age and memory, unresolved guilt and the chance to finally make peace with oneself." The cast includes Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Hiroyuki Sanada and Hattie Morahan. Mr. Holmes has no release date yet, but will be released in the U.S. later this year, Indiewire wrote.
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Warner Bros. has hired author and screenwriter Sarah Cornwell to adapt the first installment of Dragonriders of Pern, based on Anne McCaffrey's novels. The Hollywood Reporter wrote that Cornwell's debut novel, What I Had Before You, "was published in January 2014 and was a multi-generational coming-of-age drama. Her screenwriting work has won her a Humanitas Student Drama Fellowship. She is now adapting Demon Camp for Montecito Pictures, and she did a page one rewrite of The Forest for David Goyer and Lava Bear."
