Legendary Pictures has recently finalized a deal with Millie Bobby Brown to produce and star in a film based on the famous Enola Holmes Mysteries novel which is written by Nancy Springer. The 13-year-old actress is set to make her feature movie debut in Godzilla: King of Monsters. This movie is slated for a March 22, 2019, release. Alex Garcia and Ali Mendes are now overseeing this project for Legendary.
The first book of Enola Holmes Mysteries, The Case of the Missing Marquess starts off with Enola Holmes’ 14th birthday, and her mother disappears. Her brothers, Sherlock and Mycroft, had then deduced that their mom had abandoned them. Enola then escapes to London where she learns that her mother had left them in order to live with Romani people. Plot details about the adaptation have not been revealed as of now.
There have been six Enola Holmes Mysteries novels that were published during 2006 and 2010:
The Case of the Left-Handed Lady
The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets
The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan
The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline
The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye
The Case of the Missing Marquess
The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline
The last two had been nominated for the Edgar Awards for Best Juvenile Mystery. There has been no indication if Nancy Springer will be involved in the movie adaptation.
Millie Bobby Brown will be producer through her PCMA Productions banner. The actress is a pop culture sensation for her role as Eleven in Stranger Things. It had been reported that she was offered the female role of Jill Pole in an upcoming Narnia movie, The Silver Chair.
She was discovered by a talent scout in Orlando. Within months of her arrival in Los Angele, she had landed the role of Young Alice on Once Upon a Time in 2013. After some guest-starring on Modern Family, Grey’s Anatomy and NCIS she then got the breakthrough role on Stranger Things.
She had revealed in 2016 that she wanted to play a young Leia Organa in a Star Wars spin-off movie.
