First Look at Guy Ritchie’s New Sherlock Series and Yes, Detective Fans, We Are Eating

Guy Ritchie is officially returning to direct the world's greatest detective (sorry, Batman), and Prime Video just dropped our first look at his new series Young Sherlock. As someone who considers Sherlock Holmes one of the earliest superheroes, this is exactly the kind of chaotic brilliance I was hoping for.

Sherlock doesn't fly. He doesn't shoot lasers. He cannot bench press a building. But his deduction skills function like a superpower, and every adaptation has treated them like one. BBC's Sherlock? Still one of my all time favorite shows. The Robert Downey Jr movies? Iconic, stylish, and so Guy Ritchie coded it hurts. And now Ritchie is back with a complete reimagining. A younger Holmes. His first murder case. And a tone that promises all the wit, swagger, and stylized mystery we loved from the films.

Hero Fiennes Tiffin plays the young detective, with Dónal Finn as Moriarty, Joseph Fiennes and Natascha McElhone as members of the Holmes family, and even Colin Firth stepping in as Sir Bucephalus Hodge. The series follows Sherlock in the 1870s as a raw, disgraced young man whose debut case spirals into a globe trotting conspiracy that reshapes his entire future. Basically, it's Sherlock: Origins, but directed by the guy who makes everything cooler, grittier, and slightly more explosive.

And yes, the title Young Sherlock immediately sent me spiraling back to Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), which I watched obsessively as a kid. That movie gave us the first fully 3D rendered character in cinema and the most bonkers pastry nightmare scene ever committed to film. If this new series captures even a fraction of that chaotic ingenuity, we're in for a treat.

Prime Video confirms the show arrives in 2026, and based on these first photos, the vibes are immaculate. Holmes is back, younger, angrier, and ready to ruin someone's whole conspiracy with observation alone.