I hope for their sakes that they haven’t tried to plan a series of Sherlock writing/filming under the direct cover of Dracula writing/filming. They would have to also mess with the production timeline.
with these bozos, anything is possible, but yeah, it would be a LOT harder to pull off now than it was in the 1980s with “blue harvest” (return of the jedi). And a few people even found that, they just didn’t have social media to blow it up. I wonder if any production has done that more recently, or if they just rely on NDAs and security. I can believe that they are writing sherlock while they say they are writing dracula, but once they start filming, unless they do all the studio work first in secret and leave all the locations to last, it would be impossible to hide.
Even if they managed to close the sets to the general public, how could they keep the crew quiet? Their track record has not been great with this.
The reason I mentioned writing is that it narrows the window of opportunity for filming. If they say, “Bye everyone, we’re off to write Dracula”… and then actually write Sherlock, then we’d be watching for them to film something when they return. If they say, “Bye everyone, we’re off to write Dracula”… and then actually film Sherlock, their chance of success might be higher. This could explain why they went to Morocco to write S4 in the first place. It makes any “going away to write” story more plausible.
Who knows?
yeah, i'm pretty much on the "i'll believe it when i see it" program, and saying isn't showing, but if there isn't an act five someday, then it's a failure of the writing. There is definitely a shoe-drop that's still missing.