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Young Sherlock Fills the Gap Left by a Delayed Guy Ritchie Film
Guy Ritchie's third Sherlock Holmes film appears unlikely to happen after years in limbo.
The first two films starred Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. John Watson.
Prime Video's Young Sherlock offers another take on the detective, with Hero Fiennes Tiffin playing a 19-year-old Holmes in the Victorian era.
The story begins after Holmes leaves prison and starts work at Oxford University, where he is framed for a teacher's murder.
Holmes and his friend James Moriarty investigate the killing and uncover a wider conspiracy and secrets about Holmes's family.
The series is not a prequel to Ritchie's films and does not share their continuity, but it complements them.
Fiennes gives viewers a new Holmes while the third film remains uncertain, and no next step for that film is stated.
Young Sherlock is presented as a replacement for Guy Ritchie’s increasingly unlikely third Sherlock Holmes film.
The Prime Video show stars Hero Fiennes Tiffin as a 19-year-old Sherlock Holmes in the Victorian era.
The series is not in the same continuity as Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes films.
In the show, Holmes investigates a teacher’s murder at Oxford University with his friend James Moriarty.
- Who
- Prime Video’s Young Sherlock, starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin as Sherlock Holmes.
- What
- The show fills the gap left by the increasingly unlikely Sherlock Holmes 3. It follows a young Holmes investigating a murder and a conspiracy.
- When
- The article was published on November 2, 2026. The show’s release date is Not stated.
- Where
- The story is set at Oxford University in the Victorian era.
- Why
- A third Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes film no longer seems likely, according to the article.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows ended with Holmes and Moriarty presumed dead at Reichenbach Falls, before revealing Holmes was alive.
Sherlock Holmes 3 was described as unlikely to happen.
- Show
- Young Sherlock
- Platform
- Prime Video
- Sherlock Holmes actor
- Hero Fiennes Tiffin
- Holmes’s age
- 19
- Setting
- Oxford University in the Victorian era
- Moriarty actor
- Dónal Finn