The streaming giant has acquired the global rights (sans China,) to Springer’s The Enola Holmes Mysteries novels from Legendary Entertainment. The film, which adapts the first book, The Case of the Missing Marquess (2006), has already been shot, but is—like everything else—without a post-production timeframe due to the pandemic. Brown stars as the titular character, the tenaciously precocious 16-year-old sister of famed Holmes siblings Sherlock and Mycroft. She will be joined by an array of impressive co-stars, most notably another superstar of the Netflix stable, The Witcher’s Henry Cavill, who will play Sherlock, joined by The Hunger Games’ Sam Claflin as Mycroft. As the official synopsis for Enola Holmes reads: Harry Bradbeer serves as director for the film, transitioning from a long CV of television work, most recently with Phoebe Waller-Bridge shows Fleabag and Killing Eve. He works off a screenplay by Jack Thorne, a BAFTA and Tony Award-winning writer, who recently worked on the play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, along with shows like HBO’s His Dark Materials and upcoming Netflix series The Eddy. Star Millie Bobby Brown herself—at age 16—will serve as a producer on the film alongside Paige Brown, both via their PCMA Productions shingle, joined in that capacity by Legendary’s Mary Parent, Alex Garcia and Ali Mendes. Before Stranger Things Season 4 (hopefully) drops on Netflix sometime in 2021, Brown will next be seen in megamonster showdown threequel Godzilla vs. Kong, reprising her role from 2019’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters. While the film is still currently on schedule for a release on November 20 of this year, that could quickly change, given the devastating dilatory impact of the pandemic on the entertainment industry. Likewise, the Netflix premiere of Enola Holmes remains at the mercy of external circumstances.
