Really? Really? Hollywood has super sleuth fever apparently.No, it’s not the action adventure-y, Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes project, but Will Ferrell and his “Talladega Nights” buddy Borat, aka Sacha Baron Cohen have signed on to Columbia pictures’ still-untitled Scottish detective project. In a bit of a nice twist, Cohen will play Holmes and Ferrell will play the presumably bumbling and buffooning Watson. Etan Cohen, the writer behind, the may-or-may-not-be funny “Tropic Thunder,” is penning this one and Judd Apatow with Jimmy Miller.
It sounds slightly amusing and all, but doesn’t this sound like a project that was conceived of over beers at an Apatow-home poker game with Ferrell? Will: “You hear about Guy Ritchie doing Sherlock Holmes? Stupid… Two cards, please.” Judd: “You know what would be funny…”
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