The game's afoot.

[ebonlock]

aelfsciene shares the pain with me, and I pass it along to you:

Guy Ritchie Planning to Make Sherlock Holmes Snatchier

Frenetic director and Madonna's better half, Guy Ritchie, is working on a new take on Sherlock Holmes for Warner Bros.--but this won't be your grandpa's Sherlock! Working from a script based on an upcoming comic, the Snatch director's take will reportedly reinvent the characters, making Holmes "more adventuresome and take advantage of his skills as a boxer and swordsman." It's about time that pipe-smoking pansy dropped all that brilliant reasoning shit and started indiscriminately punching and stabbing some dudes. And would it kill Watson to drop some freestyle rapping over Holmes's violin?

Why don't you just rip my heart out and stomp all over it while you're at it, Mr. Ritchie? Let me make this real clear:

Holmes. Watson. Any questions?

Comments

[ellid.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No! Make it stop! Wasn't Young Sherlock Holmes bad enough? Please! Make it go away!!!!!!!!!!!

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I know, it just makes you want to beat your head against a wall until that pain overwhelms the other. *sigh*

[wyomingnot.livejournal.com]

I'm not any kind of Sherlock Holmes fan, but even I shudder at the notion. Just... no.

[windrose.livejournal.com]

Kill me now.

[eska-rina.livejournal.com]

NONONONO. NO.

[elenderel.livejournal.com]

NO. Je refuse. Give me Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, give me Young Sherlock Holmes ... but do NOT give me this. The evil must be stopped.

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

Ritchie's vision (or lack thereof) of Sherlock Holmes sounds like a complete and utter nightmare! In case he hasn't noticed, the "brilliant reasoning shit" is why people are so fascinated by the character. He obviously doesn't understand Sherlock Holmes at all. And if that's his attitude towards original canon then I'll definitely be boycotting the film -- not that it sounds like something I'd want to see anyway! Ugh!