Keen to have a contingency plan in place in case they had a hit on their hands, Warner instructed writers Michele and Kieran Mulroney to begin work on a new script before the first one had seen the light of day. “They just came to us and said, “do you want to do the sequel?” said Michelle to Collider. “It’s very, very exciting and interesting and a challenge.”
“It’s going to be a fun movie,” she continues. “I grew up with those Conan Doyle books, so for me, to be involved in writing this is so great. These characters have always been part of my childhood. The Watson and Holmes characters are just delicious, and of course, we have those two great actors to bring them to life, Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. It’s a really interesting process we’re neck deep in right now.”
Plot details are predictably being kept under wraps, but Kieran can confirm that there will be plenty more of the swashbuckling action that powered the first movie. “We tend to write big action sequence stuff,” he says, somewhat unnecessarily. “It’ll still be a nice big whopping studio film.”
So with the original writers and director in place, all that remained was to make sure Sherlock himself was on side. Happily for all concerned, he most certainly is…
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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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