Benedict Cumberbatch says he hasn't ruled out reprising his role as Sherlock Holmes in a revival of the BBC series Sherlock.

"I'm the worst person to ask on this because I never say never, obviously," the British actor recently told Collider. "But I don't know. And I'm the worst person to ask because my slate's pretty, pretty full at the moment."

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Cumberbatch added that the Watson to his Sherlock, Martin Freeman, and the majority of other key players in the series are also pretty booked at the moment. "So, who knows?" he continued. "Maybe one day, if the script's right." He added, "And I say 'the script,' maybe it could be a film rather than the series. Who knows? But anyway, not for now."

Sherlock premiered on BBC in 2010 and ran for four seasons. While the show ended in 2017 with a series finale episode called "The Final Problem," it grew in popularity stateside once it hit Netflix.

And while Cumberbatch's former Marvel co-star Robert Downey Jr. was the latest actor to portray Sherlock Holmes on the silver screen -- in 2011's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows -- Cumberbatch may have a better reason to step back into the role: He's related to Holmes' creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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The unexpected relation was reported back in 2017, when Ancestry.com researchers confirmed that Cumberbatch and Doyle are 16th cousins, twice removed. Specifically, the duo are linked by John of Gaunt, the duke of Lancaster and the fourth son of King Edward III of England. John of Gaunt lived in the 14th century and was Doyle's 15th great-grandfather and Cumberbatch's 17th great-grandfather.

A Sherlock revival isn't the only project that's being delayed by Cumberbatch's busy schedule. In fact, the actor recently blamed his booked calendar as the reason he didn't make a cameo as Doctor Strange in Disney+'s WandaVision series. Specifically, Cumberbatch remarked, "...Um yeah, I wasn't in WandaVision. I've been quite busy."

It was revealed at the end of 2020 that Downey is expected to return as Holmes in Sherlock Holmes 3, which is currently in development. Meanwhile, Cumberbatch will next step back into the role of Doctor Strange in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Directed by Sam Raimi, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Benedict Wong, Rachel McAdams, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Xochitl Gomez. The film arrives in theaters March 25, 2022.

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Source: Collider