Sir Ian McKellen reunites with Bill Condon after working together on the James Whale biopic Gods and Monsters for the up and coming film Mr Holmes

Mr Holmes is based on Mitch Cullins novel, ‘A Slight Trick of the Mind,’  but this isnt yet another Sherlock film. In this  version’ McKellen plays a 93-year-old version of the detective,

Mr Holmes is released in the UK June 19 2015 and this official poster has just been released showing Ian as the famous detective.

In 1947, the world-famous sleuth has retired to a remote Sussex farmhouse, living in relative anonymity with only his housekeeper Mrs Munro and her young son Roger for company. Cantankerous, demanding and frustrated with the mis-representation of him in Watson’s best-selling novels, he diverts his attention to an unsolved case.  As the mystery deepens, Sherlock tries desperately to recall the events of 30 years ago that ultimately led to his retirement.