What Can We Expect From A Sherlock Holmes Sequel? Ideas and inspiration for a second Ritchie / Downey / Law detective film
With box office receipts for the reintroduction of the world's greatest detective already past the $400 million mark (and during Avatar's release, too), the pressure is on to make a second Holmesian adventure for the big screen. To give director Guy Ritchie, and stars Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, a hand, we've dug through Conan Doyle's back catalogue to deduce what might be what in the world of Sherlock next time around... WORDS ALASTAIR PLUMB
What Can We Expect From A Sherlock Holmes Sequel? What worked this time?
Though die-hard Sherlockians might beg to differ, the fast-paced, rough-and-tumble, bare-knuckle boxing, giant exploding buildings, kicking-doors-in aspect of Ritchie's romp really did deliver. The old-married couple bickering between Sherlock and Watson was beautifully done, and the evocation of a murky, industrial London likewise (even if the geography was suspect: Baker St to Pentonville via Southwark?). All-in-all, not a bad job by any means, dropping us straight into the action and cleverly avoiding a textbook origin story and lengthy introduction to the characters (which, let's be honest, isn't that exciting in the equivalent novel, A Study In Scarlet).
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Digging into a Bank Vault
Posted on Monday March 1, 2010, 14:05 by MattPage
: The Red-Headed League has a group of men digging their way into a bank,
: and being busted for having dirty knees, which lacks a certain - as the French say
: - I don't know what.
Didn't stop the Coen Bros. giving it a shot in their Ladykillers remake. Read More
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Baskerville...
Posted on Wednesday February 24, 2010, 19:36 by jamesjewell1983
disagree with not taking on this on,
its a great story, ripe for Richie-style adaptation and another (potential) big scale
production in the south-west after tim burton's Alice in Wonderland last year Read More
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Re: hound
Posted on Tuesday February 23, 2010, 16:45 by Smegg
what i enjoyed about the film was that it kept you guessing and with HOTB everyone knows the story. It just wouldnt work Read More
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DONT DO IT GUY!
Posted on Tuesday February 23, 2010, 05:41 by larryclavin
I was really bored watching Ritchies Sherlock Holmes, I had the ending figured out 15 minutes in, it was very very obvious... Downey Jr is entertining, in a half drunk, captain jack sparrow sort of way...Law never does it for me, I just dont believe him, if he was to play a self absorbed, undertalented, overpaid sleazy b*stard then maybe I could believe him in a role like that...but alas, I sat in the cinema for all of 2 hours, and the only thing that kept me awake was my broken leg(thats another story). A sequal would have to be cast with big draw "stars" to get an audience back, and I believe that would damage the project...it all depends on a gross though does'nt it... Read More
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hound
Posted on Monday February 22, 2010, 22:27 by joeSD95
i think the HOTB needs a decent adaption, nothing i've ever seen has really cut it, also what do you think the spoiler was Read More
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More characters
Posted on Monday February 22, 2010, 19:12 by Tallscreen
Having Moriarty would be a good idea, but I like the way he pulled strings from the shadows in the first film. If this is how his character operated, rather than the Bond-villain-esq megalomaniac "baddie", then it could be good. Certainly the Holmes/Watson chemistry was one of the strong points of the first film. The sequel should be definitely about them, rather than any villain.
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Re: The Reichenbach Falls
Posted on Monday February 22, 2010, 16:14 by britesparc
I doubt they could make it as exciting as the scene was in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the book, natch, not the film), so I agree: they shouldn't bother ;-) Read More
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