Watch Ian McKellen play an elderly Sherlock Holmes

Between Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr., and Jonny Lee Miller, popular culture already has plenty of Sherlock Holmeses — but if you can stand one more take on the popular detective, it's hard to imagine a better actor for the job than Ian McKellen:

Mr. Holmes is based on Mitch Cullin's 2005 novel A Slight Trick of the Mind, which imagines an elderly Sherlock Holmes as he tackles one final case. "After a lifetime of detective work, there's one mystery left to solve," teases the trailer. "His own."

Mr. Holmes will hit U.K. theaters in June, with a U.S. release to follow.

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