| Author |
Topic:
Sherlock Holmes - A Guy Ritchie Film: Robert Downey Jr. is Sherlock Holmes
|
Jango10
Registered:
Sep '02
|
Date Posted:
7/10 7:58am
Subject:
Sherlock Holmes - A Guy Ritchie Film: Robert Downey Jr. is Sherlock Holmes
- Date Edited:
7/10 7:59am (1 edits total)
Edited By:
Jango10
|
From EW.com:
Downey Jr. Is Ritchie's 'Sherlock Holmes'
(FROM VARIETY) – Robert Downey Jr. is set to star in Sherlock Holmes, director Guy Ritchie's feature drama about the fictional detective. This latest incarnation of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle character is based on an upcoming comicbook from producer Lionel Wigram which portrays Holmes as less stuffy and more adventurous, using physical prowess along with intellect to solve mysteries. Downey reportedly signed on to the Warner Bros. project after seeing Ritchie's latest version of the script, which was penned by Anthony Peckham (Don't Say a Word). The project is set to start production this fall, ahead of Columbia Pictures' presumably more comic Sherlock Holmes movie, which stars Sacha Baron Cohen as the pipe-smoking sleuth and Will Ferrell as his assistant, Watson. Downey, who just reestablished himself as an A-list box office draw with his starring role in Iron Man, will next will be seen in Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder, and then stars with Jamie Foxx in the Joe Wright-directed The Soloist. He's also set to reprise his Tony Stark role in Iron Man 2, with Jon Favreau directing. (Variety)
This is sounding good.
(Although the Ferrell/Cohen collaboration is sounding equally as good.)
-----signature-----
"I love the smell of Napalm in the morning."
McCain/Palin '08
|
|
|
Quote Reply |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
Vortigern99
Title: Manager Emeritus
Registered:
Nov '00
|
Date Posted:
7/10 8:23am
Subject:
RE: Sherlock Holmes - A Guy Ritchie Film: Robert Downey Jr. is Sherlock Holmes
|
I'll believe it when I see it! 
-----signature-----
"I knew from the beginning I was not doing science fiction.
I was doing a space opera, a fantasy film, a mythological piece,
a fairy tale."--George Lucas
My "Vader's Origins" thread:
http://boards.theforce.net/Classic_Trilogy/b10002/8708417/p1
|
|
|
Quote Reply |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
Gallandro
Registered:
Jul '98
|
Date Posted:
7/10 8:53am
Subject:
RE: Sherlock Holmes - A Guy Ritchie Film: Robert Downey Jr. is Sherlock Holmes
|
This could be .... interesting. One of my favorite film comedies is "Without a Clue" starring Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley as Holmes and Watson respectively. Very funny... look for it on DVD, it's a good romp.
Yancy
-----signature-----
No, they're just going to tax "businesses!" So unless you buy something from a "business," like groceries or clothes or gasoline ...
or unless you get a paycheck from a big or a small "business," don't worry ... it's not going to affect you.
F Thompson
|
|
|
Quote Reply |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
JediTrilobite
Registered:
Nov '99
|
Date Posted:
7/10 9:15am
Subject:
RE: Sherlock Holmes - A Guy Ritchie Film: Robert Downey Jr. is Sherlock Holmes
|
Huh, that might be cool.
I'd prefer Hugh Laurie as Holmes though... :-p
-----signature-----
|
|
|
Quote Reply |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
Zaz
Title: Manager:
The Amphitheatre
Registered:
Oct '98
|
Date Posted:
7/10 9:34am
Subject:
RE: Sherlock Holmes - A Guy Ritchie Film: Robert Downey Jr. is Sherlock Holmes
|
Certainly Downey knows about drug addiction... 
|
|
|
Quote Reply |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
Zaz
Title: Manager:
The Amphitheatre
Registered:
Oct '98
|
Date Posted:
9/5 8:03pm
Subject:
RE: Sherlock Holmes - A Guy Ritchie Film: Robert Downey Jr. is Sherlock Holmes
|
|
Differing reports on the casting of Watson.
|
|
|
Quote Reply |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
Vincent-Kenobi
Registered:
Sep '08
|
Date Posted:
9/5 8:16pm
Subject:
RE: Sherlock Holmes - A Guy Ritchie Film: Robert Downey Jr. is Sherlock Holmes
|
|
Word is that Ritchie might cast Russel Crowe as Moriarty. I really hope that turns to be true.
-----signature-----
Used to post under the name Yodas-evil-twin
"You'll never find rainbows if you're looking down." - Charlie Chaplin
"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" - Anton Chigurh
Cinema is my drug of choice.
|
|
|
Quote Reply |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
Zaz
Title: Manager:
The Amphitheatre
Registered:
Oct '98
|
Date Posted:
9/5 8:27pm
Subject:
RE: Sherlock Holmes - A Guy Ritchie Film: Robert Downey Jr. is Sherlock Holmes
|
|
Now that would be interesting...!
|
|
|
Quote Reply |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
Chancellor_Ewok
Registered:
Nov '04
|
Date Posted:
9/6 7:31am
Subject:
RE: Sherlock Holmes - A Guy Ritchie Film: Robert Downey Jr. is Sherlock Holmes
|
Link
Jango, there's already a Sherlock Holmes discussion thread, including discussion of the forthcomming film.
-----signature-----
For more information about the crack spider's bitch contact the Canadian Wildlife Service in Ottawa.
I robbed the second largest bank in France using only a ballpoint pen
I killed a man with this thumb.
|
|
|
Quote Reply |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
Zaz
Title: Manager:
The Amphitheatre
Registered:
Oct '98
|
Date Posted:
9/6 8:53am
Subject:
RE: Sherlock Holmes - A Guy Ritchie Film: Robert Downey Jr. is Sherlock Holmes
|
|
Jango started this thread back in June. I think there's room for both.
|
|
|
Quote Reply |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
CucumberBoy
Registered:
Mar '07
|
Date Posted:
9/6 11:09am
Subject:
RE: Sherlock Holmes - A Guy Ritchie Film: Robert Downey Jr. is Sherlock Holmes
|
JediTrilobite posted:
Huh, that might be cool.
I'd prefer Hugh Laurie as Holmes though... :-p
That... Is genious.
The books that aren't actually written by Doyle are never good. His writing is the reason I read Sherlock Holmes. Couldn't care less for the character.
-----signature-----
Scientists have discovered an organism that has survived despite not the fact that it has not had sex for millions of years.
The scientists found the organism at a Star Wars convention.
|
|
|
Quote Reply |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
