Even though Guy Ritchie’s “RocknRolla” doesn’t come out in the U.S. until October, he is already talking his next project, ‘Sherlock Holmes.’ Robert Downey Jr. is set to star as the master detective and Downey Jr.’s wife, Ritchie’s fellow producer, is also a part of the film. It is still unknown who will play the bumbling sidekick, Watson. Ray Winstone would be perfect, but we have doubts because of ‘Indy 4’ in which he was awful. (Thanks George Lucas!) There is still plenty of time though. ‘Holmes’ won’t come out for another two years, and the british film maker is already spilling the beans on the film.
“It will be a very big production, visceral and intellectual,” Ritchie says. “His brilliance will percolate into the action.” Ritchie isn’t worried about the Judd Apatow ‘Sherlock Holmes’ project at all. He says: “They don’t even have a script yet. We are way ahead.”
Hopefully both films will bring in a new audience and a new perspective to the legendary character. But it is certain that they will be better than that colossal butt fuck of a saturday morning cartoon.