Guy Ritchie, the director of cult hits like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch. and RocknRolla, has Sherlock Holmes all set for reviews with its release on Christmas Day in the US.
Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.
The films casts Robert Downey Jr (Iron Man, Tropic Thunder, Chaplin) as Sherlock Holmes, Jude Law (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain) as Dr. John Watson, Rachel McAdams and Mark Strong.
This is Mark Strong's third appearance in a Guy Ritchie movie after Revolver and RocknRolla.
The movie is just over 2 hours.
Trivial Trivia
Colin Farrell was in talks to play Watson before Jude Law was cast.
The first Sherlock Holmes film to reach U.S. movie theaters in over twenty years, since the 1988 comedy Without a Clue (1988) with Michael Caine as Reginald Kincaid/"Sherlock Holmes".
While filming a fight scene, Robert Maillet accidentally knocked out Robert Downey Jr..
Sienna Miller was in talks for a role before her ex-fiancé Jude Law was cast as Watson.
There were rumors that Brad Pitt has been cast as Moriarty and re shoots have taken place, but the rumors were quickly denied.
Guy Ritchie's first film not to be Rated R in the US.
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