Sherlock's Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat have update on show's future
The rumours of Sherlock's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Again.
It's true that the series has been on a rest - a very, very long rest - since last year, but that's because its cast and writers are now hugely in-demand. Benedict Cumberbatch is off saving the galaxy from Thanos, Martin Freeman is somehow sharing a stage with Danny Dyer (yes, really!) and its writers are busy with a bloodsucker.
Specifically, series creators Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat are hard at work on a BBC and Netflix series reinventing the Dracula mythology, with production set to begin "very soon".
Fans couldn't be blamed in assuming that the duo being up to their necks in vampires (see what we did there?) would mean a Sherlock revival is out of the question, but that doesn't seem to actually be the case.
Chatting to the Radio Times, Moffat insisted: "We’ve never said necessarily goodbye to Sherlock. No, we’ll see!"
"One thing at a time," Gatiss interjected. "Dracula occupies a lot of headspace.”
The two did mention that the experience of writing for a character as cerebral as Count Dracula did bring to mind Sherlock's own thought process - although not necessarily in a positive way.
"It is actually 10 years since the pilot,” Gatiss said. “10 years! So in a way it does bring back memories. But it brings back more fresh, recent memories of pain and horror.”
“It just brings back memories of the really late bits of Sherlock!” Moffat joked.
Hopefully they can remember the good times as well. In the meantime, Digital Spy recently underwent the official Sherlock escape-room experience, and you can check out our full rundown by clicking here.
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