Miller is Sherlock Holmes

Published February 16, 2012

According to Deadline, British actor Jonny Lee Miller has been cast as Sherlock in the upcoming American Holmes drama Elementary.

The American TV network developing the show, CBS, are facing an uphill battle to prove their version has any reason to exist with BBC’s Sherlock already doing a fantastic job. Earlier this year, it was reported there could be possible legal action against the show.

CBS are going to have a tough time convincing audiences that anyone other than Benedict Cumberbatch can play the iconic role on the small screen. At least Miller is British though.

Miller’s more recent TV projects include American drama series Eli Stone and Dexter. In an ironic twist, Miller starred alongside a certain Cumberbatch in Danny Boyle’s stage version of Frankenstein (the pair pictured).

As previously reported, the planned series will no longer see Sherlock living in Baker Street, instead he’ll be relocated to New York City.

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Rory Williams

blaspemy!
Larry067

…but can Sherlock deduct where his hair’s gone?
http://timedragoninthevortex.blogspot.com/ EternityDragon

He’s not as adorable as Benedict (Of who I had a dream he was my boyfriend last night ;) )

http://doctormerlock.blogspot.com/ Mockingjay

YA LUCKY THING!!!!!!!!!!! All I dream about is snakes eating people and my (calm, couldn’t-hurt-a-fly) dogs fighting… oh, and that dream about the Doctor Who cast climbing around my bedroom while I was out at school. That was a wierd dream.

Yeah, we all love Benedict!

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZH3HUWUK2IBZHFUYDAX2NQOLKY Lol

Nice to see CBS putting ‘fresh American faces’ in the role… with a British actor…

http://untoldstories-awritersjourney.blogspot.com/ ConsultingTimeLord

My thoughts exactly…
http://www.facebook.com/riseoftheteddybears Valeyard12andaHalf

Maybe they couldn’t find an American actor that fits the Sherlock bill. I mean, of all the american actors who went for the role of Gregory House in House, a British Actor was chosen, and he wasn’t even going for House. Hugh Laurie auditioned for Wilson.

So Miller, could very well be a Brit playing Sherlock, but could be speaking with an American Accent

alex_494

Traitorous swine, how could a British actor do this to Sherlock :(
http://doctormerlock.blogspot.com/ Mockingjay

Sorry America, but….

HELL NO!!!
http://twitter.com/Gidz_v2 Gideon Harris

Don’t get me wrong I like the work of Lee Miller but I really hope this fails just because of the audacity of America making this at all and then moving it to New York. It’s insulting
armadilloattack

I feel like this is a case of “Miller and Cumberbatch were capable of playing both roles in Frankenstein therefore Miller can equally play Cumberbatch’s role of Sherlock as well.” -headdesk- Miller is fantastic but this,..this just isn’t going to work out.
Dianna W

At first they steal a british serie, and now they steal a british actor…

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British Series, yeh, they are stealing that. But they are allowed to have British Actors. I don’t think it constitutes as stealing, but more as borrowing.

http://timedragoninthevortex.blogspot.com/ EternityDragon

Or kidnapping :P

CybermanFan

Nobody should EVER watch this US version. Relocated to New York? Just why? London not good enough? Do they suppose an American cannot relate to anyone from another country?
armadilloattack

We already basically have an America Sherlock Holmes character. It’s called House. -headdesk-
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I’ve said before else where that I don’t like that they aren’t crediting BBC’s Sherlock in the modern day as much, and are trying to make it sound like they have come up with the idea of it being an Original take on the crime-fighting sleuth, but I will stand that I am not going to judge it before it has even been broadcast.

For all we know, it could have a 221 Baker Street, within the New York area. It could have a Lestrade and a Watson, and a Mrs Hudson. It could be a really good series, and a slightly different take on it, in a interesting way.

As long as they don’t copy BBC’s Sherlock and call it Elementary (which I do think is a rather ingenious name) to attempt to disguise their copying, I never judge a book by its cover.

House is a medical drama influenced by Sherlock Holmes. And people said that it would be a total failure, and it was a massive success. This could very well be the same!

Miller is Sherlock Holmes

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