Despite Avatar gobbling up more dollars than the Na'vi have floaty-soul-plant friends, Sherlock Holmes has been doing solid business at the box office, with $389 million and counting, and it still has to open in a few countries. So it won't shock you to learn that, as strongly suggested by Robert Downey Jr dropping out of Cowboys And Aliens, a sequel is up and sweating on the fast track running machine.
And now, according to Joel Silver, that means other Ritchie projects have to fall by the wayside, and the first casualty of Sherlock's success is DC's brutal bounty hunter Lobo. I don't think he's going to do it now," Silver tells the LA Times (via Collider). "The studio wants us and Guy to focus on making another Sherlock Holmes.
"So I think we're going to be doing that. But we're seeing what happens with this. Everybody is analyzing everything. It's all kind of happening right now as we talk. So we're trying to see if we can do something quickly with another movie. We have some ideas and some good story points."
And just where does that leave Lobo? On hold until Ritchie's back from his second trip to Victorian London? Or handed off to someone else? "I would guess a different director," says Silver. "It's all happening at once now. Everybody is talking about everything .... It's an ongoing conversation.
We doubt Warners will let the hulking troublemaker lay dormant for too long, but as of now, he's no match for a successful detective.