Posts Tagged ‘cast’
Film has started, final cast confirmed
Final cast for Guy Ritchie’s film confirmed:
Sherlock Holmes – Robert Downey Jr.
Dr John Watson – Jude Law
Irene Adler – Rachel McAdams
Mary – Kelly Reilly (Watson’s ‘girl’)
Lord Blackwater – Mark Strong
Guy Ritchie has said that the movie will be faithful to the original stories, not quite sure how he can say that linked with the previous things he has said about the film. They got together yesterday at the London Freemason’s Hall to talk about the film.
Ritchie said he was a huge fan of the stories. “I really knew Sherlock Holmes from tape – I wasn’t a very good reader – and what I had imagined in my mind was not exactly what I’d seen previously on film.”
He added: “We’re trying to be as authentic as we can to the original Sherlock Holmes. We’ve tried to include a bit more Conan Doyle in it.”
A quote from the Guardian about Robert Downey Jr. makes me both happy and slightly sceptical.
The actor, now a proper action movie lead after the success of Iron Man, joked that he was “clearly going to do it better” than anyone before him. He said he was not that familiar with Sherlock Holmes before accepting the part. “The more I read about him, the more overwhelmed I was by the weight of it and the amount of people who will be watching to see if it’s gotten right.”
And since you all know that I believe that Holmes & Watson are a OTP (one true pairing) this quote made me smile.
the film will explore the “co-dependency” and genuine love between Holmes and Watson. The only reticence yesterday was over what Holmes will wear – the deerstalker is out but lips are sealed about what is in.
(Incidentally, I don’t believe Watson was gay or had any sexual feelings towards Holmes but I do believe that Holmes was homosexual and may have had sexual feelings towards Watson that he ignored and kept hidden [except for the sulking about Watson's marriage])
