![]() Netflix is known for pulling this exact move before, making films that were initially written as new works and tying them back to things like The Cloverfield Franchise. It is a truth universally acknowledged in Hollywood that if a new series can be tied back to an already-known title, it has a better chance of getting made. In the last decade alone, there's been everything from Robert Downey Jr.'s Sherlock Holmes blockbuster films to Benedict Cumberbatch's modern Sherlock to the more recent adaptation of the Enola Holmes novels, themselves a middle-grade fiction reimagining of Doyle's characters.īut of all the Holmesian titles, nothing so far has been quite like Netflix's The Irregulars. But the popularity of the "World's Greatest Detective," combined with backroom dealings of copyright law, made the stories an attractive (and available) franchise. ![]() Sir Arthur Conan Doyle probably didn't realize when he wrote Sherlock Holmes that he'd be setting a formula aped by mystery stories for the next 150 years. ![]()
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