Sherlock Adds A New Villain

Lars Mikkelsen

Sherlock Adds A New Villain For Season 3, Played By Lars Mikkelsen

With excitement mounting for the finally underway season, 3 of Sherlock, executive producer Sue Vertue recently announced that Lars Mikkelsen has been cast as a new villain for the show, Charles Augustus Magnussen. Mikkelsen, best known for his work as aspiring Mayor Troels Hartmann in the original Copenhagen set version of The Killing, might also sound familiar to Hannibal fans, as he is the brother of Hannibal Lecter actor Mads Mikkelsen.

Lars Mikkelsen’s role in Sherlock is still unclear to a certain extent. Executive producer Sue Vertue only tweeted out the image above with the caption,

Sherlock’s new nemesis – introducing Lars Mikkelsen as Charles Augustus Magnussen.

No information about the character has been given beyond the fact that he is a new nemesis of Sherlock’s. However, some astute Sherlock Holmes fans have recognized that the name bears a striking resemblance to that of Arthur Conan Doyle‘s character Charles Augustus Milverton.

Milverton appeared in the short Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton”, written and published after the book version of Sherlock Holmes’ death in “The Final Problem.” Sherlock Holmes’ in-book-death on the edge of the Reichenbach Falls, which occurs during the events of “The Final Problem,” inspired the devastating, perplexing final episode of season 2 of the BBC show, “The Reichenbach Fall”.

The timeline of Magnussen’s appearance in Sherlock and his name both indicate that he is likely a version of Charles Augustus Milverton. This means that Lars Mikkelsen is very probably joining his brother as an on-screen murderer, though not a cannibal. Instead, Milverton, and likely Magnussen, is a talented blackmailer, taunting Sherlock Holmes and Watson with his skill.

Season or series, 3 of Sherlock has been taunting fans for quite some time now with sporadic updates and a delay brought on by stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman’s work on The Hobbit. The show was filming the third and final episode of the season during Comic-Con a week and a half ago, but there is no indication as to which episode, or episodes, Mikkelsen will appear in. For now, Sherlock fans will have to wait for more news. We’re good at that by now.

Latest Posts

Chinese Anaconda Remake Trailer Shocks Audiences with Brutal Intensity

The anticipation for the Chinese remake of the '90s creature feature film Anaconda has reached a fever pitch with the release of its first...

TOP GUN 3 Progresses with Tom Cruise’s Seal of Approval on Intriguing Story

A few months back, the news broke that Paramount Pictures was gearing up for the Top Gun 3. With Joseph Kosinski back in the...

Posts You Will Love

New Mars Trailer for Destiny

Activision and Bungie have revealed a new gameplay trailer for their upcoming title Destiny which shows off the ruins of our solar system's fourth planet Mars....

Latest articles

Related articles

Your Comments / What Do You Think ?

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.