SHERLOCK: Season 2 Explores Friendship, Deliver Cliffhanger

Mark Gatiss has revealed additional story details for the much-anticipated second season of Sherlock.

We already know that Sherlock season 2 will be based on versions of Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Scandal In Bohemia, The Hound Of The Baskervilles and The Final Problem. But what else do we know?

Speaking at the Empire Presents: Big Screen TV Panel, creator/writer Gatiss outlined some of the broader story details:

“It’s a rare chance to do the early days of Holmes and Watson’s friendship, right from the beginning, so everything you know has not yet formed. Sherlock’s attitude to women and to crime is still forming, so it’s much more ‘plastic’.
The only heresy [about the show] is that it’s modern day, but after that it’s one of the most faithful versions there’s ever been, because Stephen (Moffat) and I just love it. Sherlock Holmes had become all about the hansom cabs and the fog, rather than about the friendship of this unlikely couple, but ours is very much inspired by the Basil Rathbone’s version.”

As for the Reichenback Falls incident from The Final Problem, Gatiss teased, “We get to the cliffhanger somehow…”

via: Empire

While production on season 2 nears completion, filming was recently stalled due to the London riots, which had Gatiss tweeting: