Netflix dropped the full trailer Tuesday for “Enola Holmes 3,” confirming a July 1 global premiere for the third installment in the franchise led by Millie Bobby Brown. The 105-minute film takes Enola out of Victorian London and onto the Mediterranean island of Malta, where she’s set to marry Lord Tewkesbury on the very day her brother Sherlock turns up kidnapped.
Philip Barantini, the Emmy Award-winning director behind the Netflix limited series “Adolescence,” steps into the franchise for the first time, taking over from Harry Bradbeer, who helmed both the 2020 original and its 2022 sequel. The screenplay comes from Jack Thorne, who wrote all three films in the series as well as “Adolescence.” That reunion of Barantini and Thorne is the clearest signal of the tone Netflix is going for here. The sequel is expected to skew darker than the two prior entries.
Brown, speaking to Netflix’s Tudum, said, “What I love about this chapter is that Enola is stepping into a version of herself that feels much more defined but still evolving. She’s built something for herself, which is amazing, but she’s also questioning what she wants next, and I think that’s something so many people can relate to.”
The trailer lays out the stakes quickly. Tewkesbury proposes, Enola accepts, and then Dr. John Watson literally runs her off the road to deliver the news that Sherlock is gone. The footage cuts between wedding-day chaos and a full-blown investigation, including at least one shot of Brown’s Enola standing on top of a moving carriage in a wedding dress, gun in hand. Netflix’s official synopsis describes it as “a case more tangled and treacherous than any she has faced before.”
Brown was equally direct about what drew her back to the role alongside Louis Partridge, who returns as Tewkesbury. “There’s a comfort and an ease between us now that you can’t really fake and it just comes from years of working together and supporting each other,” she told Tudum. “What’s been really nice is getting to explore a more mature version of Enola and Tewkesbury’s relationship. It’s not just playful anymore; it has real weight to it.”
Henry Cavill returns as Sherlock, Helena Bonham Carter reprises her role as Enola’s mother Eudoria, and Himesh Patel is back as Dr. John Watson, with Sharon Duncan-Brewster continuing as Moriarty. Mary Parent, Ali Mendes, Joshua Grode, and Alex Garcia produced the film for Legendary Entertainment, with Brown also producing through her company PCMA Productions. Jake Bongiovi and Isobel Richards executive-produced for PCMA alongside Michael Dreyer.
Principal photography took place at Shepperton Studios in England and on location in Valletta and Mdina, Malta, with cinematographer Matthew Lewis, who worked with Barantini on “Boiling Point,” behind the camera. The first “Enola Holmes” drew 189.90 million hours watched in its first 28 days on Netflix, while the 2022 sequel pulled 158.03 million hours in its opening four weeks. “Enola Holmes 3” arrives on the streamer July 1.
