For all Warner’s forward-planning with the script, the whole thing would have fallen flat had Downey not been happy to come back on board. Happily, the star was not only keen to come back, he’d been doing his homework too.
“I’m doing Sherlock Holmes again” he told journalists, “so I’m going back and reading all the Conan Doyle books again. I just finished them, so I’m gonna start over again, at Volume 1.” Impressive stuff, particularly coupled with his determination that Sherlock Holmes 2 should not just be another lazy cash-in.
"There's always room for improvement,” he explains, “and as a matter of fact, that's the great thing about seeing a film in success. A film in failure, you only see exactly what the audience thought was wrong, and you need to regroup. With Sherlock, we had success and the audience responded to it, but we also saw room for improvement."
All of which sounds very promising, but would Downey be doing it alone, or would he have his partner in crime Jude Law along for the ride? What do you think?
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ChrisWootton
Dec 9th 2010, 12:47
Jared Harris, whose most notable big-screen performance to date was a small role in The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. He was the grown up WIll in Lost in Space and had one the meatier roles in Happiness, not to mention Natural Born Killers and Dead Man. Christ he's been around for yonks and has had much more screen time than you give him credit for
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jonnysniperuk
Dec 10th 2010, 13:39
Lets be honest though the average cinema-goer will most probably only have seen Benjamin Button and maybe Lost In Space but lets be honest that isn't exactly memorable and when you consider that Sherlock Holmes was a 12a then you need to consider that quite a large amount of youngsters would have seen it and would have no idea that Natural Born Killers or Dead Man exist and as such the Benjamin Button reference is pretty correct dependent on whether you look at it from an "average Joe" point of view or the point of view of an intellectual cinema-goer.
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elijay
Feb 18th 2011, 13:05
I seem to remember Jared Harris quite clearly from 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse' as Dr Ashford. Surely, quite a few people will have seen that, as it would definitely be something the younger zombie-lovin' gaming folk are into?
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