SHERLOCK HOLMES 2 Posters

[filkertom]

We are blessed to live in a time with two very different and yet very satisfying interps of The World's Most Famous Consulting Detective. Here are two advance posters from the next installment of the cinematic, i.e., period, version. (Do you realize that Robert Downey, Jr. is threatening to have as many franchises as Keanu Reeves, except of course he's a fantastic actor while Keanu Man is... Keanu, man?)

Comments

[sdelmonte]

Christian Bale tried to compete - Batman and Terminator - but came up short. And Daniel Craig might be going for it with The Girl Who... as well as Bond.

[lothie.livejournal.com]

Keanu is perhaps not the actor RDJ is, but he's actually fairly good, if given a good script.

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

I still can't picture Sad Holmes.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Three - if you count "House" (technically the 2nd modern-dress Sherlock Holmes out there now).

Thanks for pointing to these.

well...

[zeekar.livejournal.com]

That's an "inspired by". The melodrama of late on "House" has not been very Sherlockian in nature. :)

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I loved the first movie so very much! I'm delighted that the second one got made and hope like Hades that it will measure up or even surpass. I'm such a Holmes, RDJ and Jude Law fangirl that it isn't even funny.

[virtualvirtue.livejournal.com]

OOOOooooo...thank you. Does my little fangirl heart good.

I'm not as much of a fan of RDJ as Holmes (he does a good job, don't get me wrong) as I am of Jude Law as Watson. Oh dear god, he makes me forget Nigel Bruce ever existed... ;) This is a Good Thing (tm).

[melchar.livejournal.com]

IMO Jeremy Brett & Edward Hardwicke were a better Holmes & Watson - but RDJ & Law were -wonderful-.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I refuse to get into "better" -- hell, Roger Moore and Patrick MacNee* were an interesting Holmes/Watson, and one of my very favorite movies is The Seven Per-Cent Solution. They're such great, meaty character roles that it's very hard to do them badly, and it's always exciting to see a new interp.

* MacNee also played Watson to Christopher Lee's Holmes. Dude's a trouper.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

I'm glad they're doing a second one. The first one was good and while it did hint at a sequel, I don't think they went overboard. I hope the sequel will be as good. The first one had a bit of steampunk in it too IMHO.

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

With all this "better" talk, am I the only one who remembers Basil Rathbone???