New Sherlock Holmes Movie x2

[aliefj96]

Two completely different Holmes movies coming soon.

From Yahoo's site....


Robert Downey Jr., riding high at the box office with "Iron Man," is in final negotiations to play Sherlock Holmes in director Guy Ritchie's movie about the super sleuth.
The Warner Bros. project, dubbed "Sherlock Holmes," will have to contend with a rival movie at Columbia, a comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen. Ritchie's version takes its cue from a forthcoming comic book that producer Lionel Wigram wrote as a selling tool for a new take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic character. The concept sees Holmes as more adventurous and less stuffy than previous screen incarnations and mines more obscure character traits.

Downey came onto the project via his wife, Susan, who works for one of the film's producers, Joel Silver. When the actor was in Silver's Warner-based offices, the producer showed him Ritchie's version of Holmes, sparking Downey's interest.

"Sherlock Holmes" will start shooting in the fall; Warner Bros. is eyeing an October 2009 release. The Columbia project, meanwhile, also has Will Ferrell on board as Holmes' sidekick Dr. Watson. Judd Apatow is producing, but no director is attached yet.

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Did the search for Holmes and didn't see a previous post. Sorry if it's a double.

[OldCode]

sound good. Love the books. Hope they do a good job with the movies.

[mcdevster]

will ferrel as watson?? wow interesting casting choice - not my image of watson for sure - but it would be interesting...

[mathil]

Originally Posted by mcdevster

will ferrel as watson?? wow interesting casting choice - not my image of watson for sure - but it would be interesting...

Will Ferrel is Watson in the COMEDY that stars Sascha Baren Cohen (aka BORAT)

Downey JR. is the star of the serious movie, and there is no mention of who is cast for Watson in that film.

[Cheeto]

They should hire CS as pipe advisers, make sure to get things right dagnabit.

[call-of-the-weird]

Originally Posted by aliefj96

Two completely different Holmes movies coming soon.

From Yahoo's site....


Robert Downey Jr., riding high at the box office with "Iron Man," is in final negotiations to play Sherlock Holmes in director Guy Ritchie's movie about the super sleuth.
The Warner Bros. project, dubbed "Sherlock Holmes," will have to contend with a rival movie at Columbia, a comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen. Ritchie's version takes its cue from a forthcoming comic book that producer Lionel Wigram wrote as a selling tool for a new take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic character. The concept sees Holmes as more adventurous and less stuffy than previous screen incarnations and mines more obscure character traits.

Downey came onto the project via his wife, Susan, who works for one of the film's producers, Joel Silver. When the actor was in Silver's Warner-based offices, the producer showed him Ritchie's version of Holmes, sparking Downey's interest.

"Sherlock Holmes" will start shooting in the fall; Warner Bros. is eyeing an October 2009 release. The Columbia project, meanwhile, also has Will Ferrell on board as Holmes' sidekick Dr. Watson. Judd Apatow is producing, but no director is attached yet.

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Did the search for Holmes and didn't see a previous post. Sorry if it's a double.

Sounds good. I just bought 3 volumes containing all the Sherlock Holmes stories recently. Looking foward to reading them now, before the films come out.