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Move over, Sherlock And Daughter, the original plucky young female Sherlock Holmes protégé is coming back. On Tuesday, Netflix announced that Enola Holmes 3 starring Millie Bobby Brown is in production. Brown will once again be joined on screen by Henry Cavill as her older brother, Sherlock Holmes, Helena Bonham Carter as her mother Eudoria, and Louis Partridge as her love interest, the young noble Tewkesbury. The third film will also feature some classic Holmesian characters that were introduced in the sequel: Sharon Duncan-Brewster as the female Moriarty, and Himesh Patel as Dr. John Watson.
According to a synopsis from Netflix, the new film will find Brown’s fourth wall-breaking private eye on a vacation of sorts as she “juggles a new case and the next stages of her relationship with Tewkesbury.” Per the logline, “Adventure chases detective Enola Holmes to Malta, where personal and professional dreams collide in a case more tangled and treacherous than any she has faced before.”
Netflix likes to keep things in the family—as evidenced by the fact that the streamer has monopolized most of Millie Bobby Brown’s young career since she broke out on Stranger Things—so Enola Holmes 3 has a familiar creative team behind it. Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne will return to pen the script (he wrote the first two), and Adolescence director Philip Barantini will step in to helm the third installment. Last year, sources for Deadline suggested that Barantini’s idea “was to go a little darker and skew a little older” for the new movie, adding that he “pitched this installment doing for the franchise what Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban did for the Harry Potter series.” A bold pitch given Azakaban was helmed by future Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón. But the most recent collaboration between Barantini and Thorne (who also wrote the Harry Potter And The Cursed Child stage play, for what it’s worth) not only dabbled in darkness but also garnered massive critical acclaim, so this is a promising direction for Enola Holmes 3.
