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Enola Holmes
2020 · Film · 124 min
Part of Enola Holmes Collection
Directed by Harry Bradbeer
While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.
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The Holmes situation was even sillier than that: they were arguing that certain personality traits of Sherlock were still under copyright: https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/conan-doyle-estate-sues-netflix-enola-holmes/
We've just had a thing with Sherlock Holmes.
2 films, the Sherlock and elementary series and now enola Holmes, despite Sherlock Holmes being near (in copyright terms) the end of copyright.
So that would tend to disprove the thesis. Plus it suggests that having the author on board is valueless. Would you want to pay the author a fee and get them on board, or do you want them bad mouthing your new film?
Further, any author that writes a book with any legitimate expectation that it's going to be made in to a film is probably successful enough already.
JK Rowling probably wasn't expecting a film deal. She wrote the books without that expectation. I'm interested in a copyright that encourages and allows her to write books, not make her into a multimillionaire. If anything her success means she can write less books. Is that a good thing? I'm not in favour of keeping her in penury, but copyright should be about allowing them to work, not make it so they can stop.
Yeah that's fair. The gender/race swapping is sort of a different thing I guess. By all means, diversity is good, but at the same time, I kind of rolled my eyes when seeing "Enola Holmes" show up on netflix. It's Sherlock Holmes, but a girl! Well technically his sister, but its more or less the same. Maybe its good, but I'm hesitant to watch something that's main thesis seems to be "Girls can be good detectives like Sherlock too". I don't want that. I want a story about a competent female detective that just does things her own way. Say, idk, Jessica Jones.
It's the difference between making a film about black Peter Parker vs. (black) Miles Morales for spider man. If they go for Miles, great, sounds like a good start. If they go for the former, you really have to wonder why, and how big of a deal its going to be. Being talked down to with drudgingly obvious and childishly simple messages about racial equality is annoying. It's so, so much better to demonstrate equality by having competent outcomes from a diverse cast.