![]() ![]() ![]() and Ian McKellen have also slipped into Holmes’ shoes in recent times) is no news to you, but also consider ITV’s Maigret adaptation (2016-2017), which starred none other than Rowan Atkinson in the titular role. The easily found testimony for this will be the many numbers of high-budget productions with celebrity stars playing age-old classic detective figures – Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes (Holmes is the hot stuff no wonder, as Robert Downey Jr. The saving grace, as always, has been other focused thriller frameworks – be it genre-blending of mystery and psychological horror, greater artistic merit and emphasis on atmospheric and cinematographic elements, or the good old detective tale with a well-mapped plot.įor the last of the above mentioned, there have no doubt been a number of takes with original scriptwriting, and we have had some superb writing in original productions over the years, no doubt, but the fact of the matter remains that the bigger money and appeal still seems to fixate on adaptations. ![]() Spy thrillers have been an easy practice dummy for parodies over the ages, but cop procedurals are almost unanimously agreed upon to be a subgenre where things will inevitably go south, and the many fundamental pitfalls of it begin to show promptly when producers push for a sustained run on a single franchise. Stepping over from non-scripted to scripted territory, things get somewhat finicky (and hit-or-miss) when one gets to the bulk of the output here: cop procedurals. ![]()
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