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A CONTEMPORARY remake
of the Arthur Conan
Doyle classic,
co-created by Steven
Moffat and Mark Gatiss,
and starring
Benedict Cumberbatch
as Sherlock Holmes,
with
Martin Freeman
as Doctor John
Watson, Rupert Graves as
Inspector Lestrade,
and Una Stubbs as Mrs
Hudson.
A Study in Pink
is written by Steven
Moffat, and brings
together Holmes and
Watson in present day
London, on the trail of
a fiendish and
apparently motiveless
killer.
Piers Wenger, BBC Wales
Head
of Drama
said: “Our Sherlock is a
dynamic superhero in a
modern world, an
arrogant, genius sleuth
driven by a desire to
prove himself cleverer
than the perpetrator and
the police, everyone in
fact.”
Steven Moffat adds:
“Everything that matters
about Holmes and Watson
is the same, Conan Doyle’s
original stories were
never about frock coats
and gas light; they’re
about brilliant
detection, dreadful
villains and
blood-curdling crimes –
and frankly, the hell
with the crinoline.
“Other detectives
have cases,
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Holmes has adventures and that’s
what matters.
“Mark and I have been talking about this
project for years, on long train rides to Cardiff for Doctor Who.
Quite honestly we'd still be talking about it if Sue Vertue of Hartswood Films
(conveniently, also my wife) hadn’t
sat us down for lunch and got us to work.”
Location filming transformed Wales
into London’s
West End, turning a Swansea pub into
Angelo's Pasta Joint. TV trivia fans may notice more than a passing
resemblance between the patron Angelo and fellow Italian Luigi, the bar-owner from
Ashes to Ashes...
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