As Netflix hinted yesterday with a flowery Twitter post, lovers of mystery novels may celebrate since the new teaser for Enola Holmes 2 has come. Like in the previous film, the sequel will feature a teenage investigator (played by Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown) as she solves challenging cases in 19th century London – all the while striving to get beneath the shadow of her much more popular brother detective, Sherlock (Henry Cavill) (Henry Cavill).
The streamer is slated to broadcast the adventure in early November. The last teaser highlighted the greatest development of the sequel, which is Enola founding her own detective business but failing to find fresh cases. Netflix billed it as a “Part 1” trailer, which made us wonder what may be in store for “Part 2”. Well, now we know. The teaser starts on previously aired footage of Sherlock finding Enola hidden in his cupboard before we hear Enola is hunting for a missing girl. The audience is then informed that the missing girl uncovered the secrets of powerful individuals which might prove lethal.
Sherlock then confesses to his sister that both investigations are related. It appears like the game has found its foot again. The trailer is full of people counting Enola out, but as she demonstrates over and over again, she is extremely capable, or as her mother puts it, “magnificent”. Once again, the trailer for Enola Holmes 2 displays the movie’s production qualities, which translate to excellent cinematography, production design, and costume design. We also get more of that breaking-the-fourth-wall humour from the main character, and the always pleasant-to-see trade-off banter between Brown and Cavill. After all, their cases are related and there’s no avoiding each other.
Enola Holmes 2 is directed by two-time Emmy winner Harry Bradbeer (Fleabag), and the screenplay is written by Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials), both of whom worked together on 2020’s Enola Holmes. The movies are based on a series of novels by author Nancy Springer, which, in turn, are based on the renowned Sherlock Holmes puzzles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Brown and Cavill are joined in the sequel by the likes of Helena Bonham Carter (who plays Sherlock’s and Enola’s mom, Eudoria), Susie Wokoma (who plays a friend of the Holmes siblings named Edith), and Louis Partridge (who plays Tewkesbury). New additions to the cast include David Thewlis (Harry Potter film series), Adeel Akhtar (The Big Sick), Hannah Dodd (Eternals), and Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Dune) (Dune).
The anticipated sequel launches on Netflix on November 4.
Synopsis
Enola Holmes, now a private investigator like her renowned brother, takes on her first job to locate a missing girl just as the flames of a hazardous conspiracy begin to consume the mystery, requiring the aid of friends and even Sherlock to solve it.