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[ebonlock]

The scariest thing I've read in months:

Warner Bros. Pictures is teaming with producer Lionel Wigram to adapt Wigram's upcoming comic book Sherlock Holmes for the big screen. Neil Marshall (The Descent) will direct, while screenwriter Michael Johnson penned the script for the action-adventure.

"Sherlock" is expected to be Marshall's next directing project, as the studio is eager to push ahead, says Variety. Helmer is currently filming Doomsday for Rogue Pictures.

The trade says the exact storyline is being kept under wraps, but creative executives at Warners say they are looking for the "Sherlock" team to reinvent the sleuth and his loyal No. 2 Dr. Watson in much the same edgy way that Christopher Nolan has reimagined Batman for the studio.

Wigram's vision has Holmes losing some of his Victorian stuffiness and being more adventuresome, including playing up his skills as a bare-knuckle boxer and expert swordsman as he goes about solving crimes.

Now maybe it's just me but I happen to fucking like the Victorian stuffiness. I mean it's only the goddamn point of Sherlock Holmes, but by all means why not completely "re-imagine" the whole damn thing and cast Brad fucking Pitt in the lead role. I'm thinking Ben Stiller as Watson and Owen Wilson as Inspector Lestrade. Oh, hey then you could have Angelina Jolie as Irene Adler. Sure, why fucking not.

If you'll excuse me I need to go vomit now...

Comments

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

I was wondering what that horrible keening sound I had just heard was... now I know.

Keel them. Keel them ded.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Yeah I keep thinking watchtower, high powered rifle, and a courtyard full of studio execs.

[windrose.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's just WRONG. It also won't work. They've tried doing "edgier" versions of Holmes before and they always fail miserably because true Sherlockians like him just the way he is.

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Indeed! Give me the sun-never-sets and the tweed and Watson harrumphing around 221B, dammit!

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

Edgy?!? Holmes isn't edgy. Adventuresome, yes. There was a physical side to Holmes, but he rarely used it, prefering to use his brains to solve things. Oh, bother. I probably won't like it either.
The 40s updates remembered the Victorian side. Though Basil Rathbone was allowed to show off his fencing skills and that phycial side of Holmes every once in a while.
Even that futuristic Holmes cartoon that britgeekgrrl prefers to keeps Holmes as Holmes. You still feel the Victorian underneath the future setting.
I think my favorite though is the BBC series with Jeremy Britt.
Edgy, Modern...
*humph*

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Jeremy Brett was Sherlock, the only Sherlock IMHO, and we don't need another. But beyond that we most certainly don't need the character turned into some sort of modern action hero.

[elenderel.livejournal.com]

No. OMG no! Sherlock Holmes is so far above and beyond "edgy action hero" ... and his beauty, his glory, is his Victorian stuffiness. Pumping him up into an action hero is, IMO, as wrong as Jesus Christ taking out vampires but worse because this won't be a comedic romp through the land of heresy - it'll be a a death march to oblivion.

[psyfic.livejournal.com]

Oh, blech! That's dreadful. :(

*hugs in sympathy*