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The Sherlock Holmes stories are not slowing down anytime soon.
Deadline reports that Chris Cornwell and Oliver Lansley are developing a James Moriarty TV show for the famous Sherlock Holmes villain through Fremantle and Archery Pictures. As of writing, Moriarty is the working title, and there is no designated network or streaming service for the series.
According to the trade, the Moriarty series would be a “modern reinvention of the crime procedural, based on the most famous villain in all of detective fiction.” If the project goes forward, it would explore the classic antagonist as “a Professor of Criminal Psychology at Durham University but leads a secret double life as the mastermind behind every crime of sophistication in the North of England.”
While Sherlock isn’t mentioned to be part of it, Moriarty will have “a rival criminal” who “begins an assault on his underground empire,” which leaves the titular character with “only one choice: to join the police as a consultant, using the law as a weapon to dismantle his foe while keeping his true identity hidden from the police.” One of the characters who will be part of the drama is Detective Imogen Burrows, who is described as “a stoic Yorkshire detective,” as the duo “form a fearsome team, but Moriarty will soon realize that the real threat isn’t the rival criminal faction he’s dismantling.”
It’s currently unclear how many episodes the TV series will have, and there is no word yet on casting. Fremantle is actively looking for a potential network to pick up the project.
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