Someone Comes Up With A Mystery TV Show Starring Patrick Stewart And Ian McKellen, And Their Concept Goes Viral
The bromance between Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart is so pure, it seems to be eternal. From movie sets and theater stages to carnival rides and photo booths, the actors are not only working together, but they’re also enjoying their free time together. And their fans love their friendship so much, they’re even writing fan fiction, imagining how it should continue.
Author M.L. Brennan came up with a new version recently. “I think what I’d really like right now is a cozy British village murder mystery show where Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are elderly widower neighbors who bicker a lot about their gardens, and also solve crimes,” Brennan tweeted. They went on to develop their pitch, and it quickly won over the Internet. As of this article, Brennan’s Twitter thread with the concept of the show has over 86K likes and 17K comments, many of which are begging TV execs to make it a reality. Continue scrolling and check it out for yourself!
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“Like a lot of ideas, there were a few things marinating in my head that all finally crashed together in just the right way,” Brennan told Bored Panda. “Firstly, of course, there’s what a lot of us have been going through with social distancing. I’m spending far more hours at home, since I’m now working from home (I’m a college professor) and pretty much all “leave the house” options are off the table. I’ve been consuming a lot of comfort media — books that I’ve read before and loved, TV shows that I’ve seen before and loved, and that kind of thing. This has also led to a lot of time paging through streaming menu lists, and I remember thinking that the classic British village mystery show was possibly about as comfort-viewing as it gets. So that’s how that image of people sleuthing around a quaint British village at the most beautiful stage of summer (which seems to be the time that all of them are filmed) got into the pot.”
The second part, according to Brennan, is probably the most straightforward. “I’ve been watching (and loving) the new Star Trek: Picard series. Patrick Stewart is so wonderful in it, and I was thinking how much I would love to see him in more things, and how really nice it was also to see a show that had a diverse age range in its cast. Which is when (and I suppose this is how the brain works) I started thinking that one of the strongest relationships in the original X-Men film is the one between Patrick and Ian McKellen’s characters, and also how much I love their real-life friendship.”
All of this made the author think of how fun it would be to have them in some kind of series, and eventually, a thought about British village mysteries struck Brennan’s imagination.
Others soon started suggesting their ideas to make the show more interesting
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No wonder so many people would like to see Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart working on this project — they have amazing chemistry, and it really transcends the productions they’re working on. Like in No Man’s Land/Waiting for Godot. The two were marvelous together.
McKellen and Stewart met all the way back in the 1970s in the Royal Shakespeare Company, but they didn’t hit it off right away. McKellen was already playing the great parts and Stewart — who worshipped him — actually found him intimidating. It wasn’t until they started working on X Men that the men really bonded.
“We had adjoining trailers,” Sir Patrick Stewart told WIRED. “When you’re in those kind of movies, you spend more time sitting in your trailer than you do in front of the camera, so Ian and I hung out together, drinking tea and later in the afternoon maybe something a little stronger and we got to know one another and the charm of it was that we found we had so much in common.”
To prove how close they’ve become, McKellen even married Stewart and his wife. He was the one performing the ceremony. Yeah, so if anyone can pull off Brennan’s story, it’s these two.
“I think the best thing [about their friendship] is just how delighted they always seem in the other’s company,” Brennan added. “They always come off as the other one’s biggest fan, and I think that it’s a beautiful example of what a good friendship is.”
And it pretty much exploded from there
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I would watch the s**t out of that show. Please, someone at the BBC make it happen!
Helen Mirren is Patrick Stewart's ex-wife. They are still friends but he makes her life as chief of police (or whatever the British equivalent) a bit complicated....he's totally a retired English Professor
My thoughts exactly!! -from a divorced, retired history professor
Load More Replies...I'd watch this. All of the this. I feel like we should find a spot for Peter Capaldi, who was so wonderful on Doctor Who twice and the Torchwood final season.
And 'Miranda' needs to join. May be as a clumsy police officer
Load More Replies...I would watch this faithfully, buy all the merch, dvds, and do what ever was needed to keep this show going!
I need this show in my life!! But it needs a good title... Ideas anyone?
Plot Lines ("Plot" double meaning - story arc and property allotment)
Load More Replies...Please please make this happen. If David Tennant is in it, there should be a spot for all the newer Doctor Whos and maybe Tom Baker.
Olivia Colman, the local pub owner. She knows all the dirt. Helen Mirren, local aristo (Countess Something or Other). Following a messy, ugly divorce, she returns to the family manor. She and Patrick once had a thing, but the timing was wrong. Helen's ex shows up to make trouble, then shows up dead. Ian, "It doesn't look good for her, dear boy." Poor Patrick.
Bill Nighy can be the local pub owner who can still play a mean guitar who used to be a cop but something happened that we don't talk about, still, he knows everybody on both sides of the law and has contacts that can always lead to a clue when things look desperate.
Sean Bean dies before the opening credits .. he is obviously the victim in the murder mystery
you have to stick Tom Holland and Rupert Grint in there somewhere, you need some young people.
McKellen is a former classic stage actor who is a bit overly dramatic and constantly (and to everyone's annoyance) quotes Shakespeare and complains about modern literature and pop culture being shallow and no compare to "the classics" (but he secretly and guiltily watches "Doctor Who" or reads Harry Potter os something like that)
Shouldn't someone @Netflix to film this COMEDY GOLD RIGHT NOW????? I mean, it's got everything and everyone!!!!
Hugh Grant plays one of their sons who's trying to get them moved into a nursing home, and always flirting with the female police officers that arrive
Shut up I'd watch this any day & to see this happen it would be kick a*s and also would beat all the bs we see on TV today especially reality TV zzzzz boring. Can we make this happen 🙏for all humanity please god to do it.
A definite yes to the original idea (less keen on some of the additions :p )
Kind of hoping Patrick Stewart's Star Trek show fizzles now so he has a whole bunch of free time.
Half of this concept was done already, starring Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi. It was called 'Vicious.'
Oh god this sounds so good! Stephen Fry has to be in there somewhere as well. And Joanna Lumley
Ian McShane as a local antiques expert reprising his Lovejoy character and aiding the duo in their cases.
Must include Colin Firth as acquaintance of Patrick Stewart....maybe he was teaching at the same university and some how every episode gives Ian and Patrick ideas for solving the crime....although Colin is completely unaware of it.
Olivia Colman, the local pub owner. She knows where all the bodies are buried. Helen Mirren, local aristo, following a messy divorce, returned to the country seat. She and Patrick once had something going on, but the timing was off. Helen's ex shows up to make trouble, then shows up dead. Poor Patrick. Ian, "It doesn't look good for her, dear boy."
This needs to happen OMG this would be epic and could go on for so many seasons.
And Stephen Fry as the detective inspector’s superior or partner who is kind of oblivious to the goings on and usually ends up in the right place at the right time to be given credit.
And Richard E Grant as the local gp trying to hide the fact he has no medical knowledge or qualifications
Load More Replies...These comments and the idea that it might actually happen has made me giggle so Much this morning- please please please make it happen. What better way to emerge from the CV nightmare than the thought that we would have this to look forward to -
and OBVIOUSLY gary oldman can't be the big bad now... thanks for ruining THAT. sheesh lol
I am all in! Love that Zoe W and Dame J. Dench is with! And Tennant of c. 🕴 As a norwegian, I cannot wait : murder / mysteriseries for a week. Lots of them. British of c. Only the best 🇦🇺 Btw: make it happen BBC 🙌
okay, one of them better die because that's only acceptable excuse not to make it so!
I really like the idea, but don't think it needs a hetero love interest unless it is the neighbour's. Could we have the story lines a notch or two above Mid Murders, please? I am thinking more Miss Marple lines. These men should be intelligent and witty conversationalists and yes, bicker about their gardens but as a side-line. Old queens yes, but don't camp it up, just the acid tongues. We don't need another Midsomer or Agatha Raisin. They have deteriorated into slap-stick.
But what will Daniel Radcliffe do? And we need Emma Watson and Rupert Grint in there, too! You can't have Draco and leave out Harry, Ron, and Hermione!
Daniel Radcliffe has been busy with Miracle Workers, the delightfully stupid show that makes me laugh every week. Don't you dare take him away from his miracle work.
Load More Replies...I would watch the s**t out of that show. Please, someone at the BBC make it happen!
Helen Mirren is Patrick Stewart's ex-wife. They are still friends but he makes her life as chief of police (or whatever the British equivalent) a bit complicated....he's totally a retired English Professor
My thoughts exactly!! -from a divorced, retired history professor
Load More Replies...I'd watch this. All of the this. I feel like we should find a spot for Peter Capaldi, who was so wonderful on Doctor Who twice and the Torchwood final season.
And 'Miranda' needs to join. May be as a clumsy police officer
Load More Replies...I would watch this faithfully, buy all the merch, dvds, and do what ever was needed to keep this show going!
I need this show in my life!! But it needs a good title... Ideas anyone?
Plot Lines ("Plot" double meaning - story arc and property allotment)
Load More Replies...Please please make this happen. If David Tennant is in it, there should be a spot for all the newer Doctor Whos and maybe Tom Baker.
Olivia Colman, the local pub owner. She knows all the dirt. Helen Mirren, local aristo (Countess Something or Other). Following a messy, ugly divorce, she returns to the family manor. She and Patrick once had a thing, but the timing was wrong. Helen's ex shows up to make trouble, then shows up dead. Ian, "It doesn't look good for her, dear boy." Poor Patrick.
Bill Nighy can be the local pub owner who can still play a mean guitar who used to be a cop but something happened that we don't talk about, still, he knows everybody on both sides of the law and has contacts that can always lead to a clue when things look desperate.
Sean Bean dies before the opening credits .. he is obviously the victim in the murder mystery
you have to stick Tom Holland and Rupert Grint in there somewhere, you need some young people.
McKellen is a former classic stage actor who is a bit overly dramatic and constantly (and to everyone's annoyance) quotes Shakespeare and complains about modern literature and pop culture being shallow and no compare to "the classics" (but he secretly and guiltily watches "Doctor Who" or reads Harry Potter os something like that)
Shouldn't someone @Netflix to film this COMEDY GOLD RIGHT NOW????? I mean, it's got everything and everyone!!!!
Hugh Grant plays one of their sons who's trying to get them moved into a nursing home, and always flirting with the female police officers that arrive
Shut up I'd watch this any day & to see this happen it would be kick a*s and also would beat all the bs we see on TV today especially reality TV zzzzz boring. Can we make this happen 🙏for all humanity please god to do it.
A definite yes to the original idea (less keen on some of the additions :p )
Kind of hoping Patrick Stewart's Star Trek show fizzles now so he has a whole bunch of free time.
Half of this concept was done already, starring Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi. It was called 'Vicious.'
Oh god this sounds so good! Stephen Fry has to be in there somewhere as well. And Joanna Lumley
Ian McShane as a local antiques expert reprising his Lovejoy character and aiding the duo in their cases.
Must include Colin Firth as acquaintance of Patrick Stewart....maybe he was teaching at the same university and some how every episode gives Ian and Patrick ideas for solving the crime....although Colin is completely unaware of it.
Olivia Colman, the local pub owner. She knows where all the bodies are buried. Helen Mirren, local aristo, following a messy divorce, returned to the country seat. She and Patrick once had something going on, but the timing was off. Helen's ex shows up to make trouble, then shows up dead. Poor Patrick. Ian, "It doesn't look good for her, dear boy."
This needs to happen OMG this would be epic and could go on for so many seasons.
And Stephen Fry as the detective inspector’s superior or partner who is kind of oblivious to the goings on and usually ends up in the right place at the right time to be given credit.
And Richard E Grant as the local gp trying to hide the fact he has no medical knowledge or qualifications
Load More Replies...These comments and the idea that it might actually happen has made me giggle so Much this morning- please please please make it happen. What better way to emerge from the CV nightmare than the thought that we would have this to look forward to -
and OBVIOUSLY gary oldman can't be the big bad now... thanks for ruining THAT. sheesh lol
I am all in! Love that Zoe W and Dame J. Dench is with! And Tennant of c. 🕴 As a norwegian, I cannot wait : murder / mysteriseries for a week. Lots of them. British of c. Only the best 🇦🇺 Btw: make it happen BBC 🙌
okay, one of them better die because that's only acceptable excuse not to make it so!
I really like the idea, but don't think it needs a hetero love interest unless it is the neighbour's. Could we have the story lines a notch or two above Mid Murders, please? I am thinking more Miss Marple lines. These men should be intelligent and witty conversationalists and yes, bicker about their gardens but as a side-line. Old queens yes, but don't camp it up, just the acid tongues. We don't need another Midsomer or Agatha Raisin. They have deteriorated into slap-stick.
But what will Daniel Radcliffe do? And we need Emma Watson and Rupert Grint in there, too! You can't have Draco and leave out Harry, Ron, and Hermione!
Daniel Radcliffe has been busy with Miracle Workers, the delightfully stupid show that makes me laugh every week. Don't you dare take him away from his miracle work.
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