BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH STARS IN, PRODUCES THE 39 STEPS
Cumberbatch is also one of the few, Berger and Smith included, who will executive produce the series. Production will be helmed by Anonymous Content, Chapter One Pictures and SunnyMarch
Benedict Cumberbatch is embroiled in another “espionage” mission in an upcoming Netflix offer, The 39 Steps.
The modernized, Netflix-acquired version of the 1915 classic thriller novel The Thirty-Nine Steps, written by John Buchan, will have The Mauritanian’s Cumberbatch as its Richard Hannay.
Following his role in The Courier as Greville Wynne, a British secret agent, Cumberbatch in The 39 Steps plays an ordinary man who becomes a “pawn in a vast, global conspiracy to reset the world order.” He is the second person to play the part, next to Robert Donat in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 movie adaptation.
Netflix’s The 39 Steps will be turned into a limited series and will be directed by Edward Berger, who worked with the Marvel-franchise mainstay in another drama series Patrick Melrose in 2018. It will have Mark L. Smith as its writer.
Cumberbatch is also one of the few, Berger and Smith included, who will executive produce the series. Production will be helmed by Anonymous Content, Chapter One Pictures, and SunnyMarch.
According to Deadline, it will have about six or more hours per episode and, if schedules permit, will start filming by next year.
Cumberbatch recently appeared in the legal drama film The Mauritanian and is expected to reprise his role as Doctor Strange in two much-anticipated Marvel films Spiderman: No Back Home
this December and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
in 2022. He is well-known for his role as the famous sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, in the British crime television series Sherlock,
another series adaptation from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective novels.