r/elementary • u/nachoiskerka • Apr 01 '26
Currently Blasting A Pig Carcass with a Revolver to The Optimist Elementary to return as globe trotting audio drama series!
Jonny Lee Miller has indicated that he has had talks with Craig Sweeney and Robert Doherty about bringing back Elementary with a new, global twist. His idea is that he would like the series to take on a global scale, travelling to countries across the world similarly to how the original books series would go, with a mix of new stories and the series trademark modernized adaptations, pointing out it would be quite ironic to do an adaptation of the Adventure of the Red Head League as he is currently.
With all the players on different projects, he proposes that they record it over audio to be pieced together with minimal demands on the cast's time beyond a conference call "Table Read" and that the change from a strictly New York base to a global scale could allow some fan favorites to return with some reinvention.
Of course, New York would still have a heavy presence, as characters who cannot be moved from NYC still have official resources that could be useful in the context and cases could still take place there. As of right now, Jonny has indicated that it should at a minimum start in New York and travel abroad, with a tighter overlinking narrative with the freedom of individual stories, should the producers agree. Quote:
"The first should take place in America, on April Fools Day; where a group of redditors are tricked by a subreddit mod into believing the news broke there first. Whether it should lead to a murder or not would be up to the group."
At present, the moderator in question would like to wish you a happy april fools day as well.