Saturday, 10th April 2021 at 11:32 am Sherlock Holmes star Benedict Cumberbatch will star in Netflix’s The 39 Steps, a contemporary remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1935 thriller based on the 1915 adventure novel by John Buchan. Advertisement The actor is reuniting with Patrick Melrose director Edward Berger for the series, which will be written by The Revenant screenwriter Mark L. Smith. Cumberbatch won a BAFTA for his role in the acclaimed Sky Atlantic drama based on the series of novels by award-wining author Edward St. Aubyn, while Leonardo DiCaprio won an Oscar for The Revenant. Berger also recently directed episodes of Bryan Cranston’s Showtime and Sky Atlantic drama Your Honor, and Smith scripted Netflix’s George Clooney-directed film The Midnight Sky.