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Short Take: No longer just a sleuth, Holmes is also a hero

Director: Guy Ritchie (RocknRolla, Snatch, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)

Screenwriters: Michael Robert Johnson (Début), Anthony Peckham (Invictus)

Cast: Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man, Tropic Thunder), Jude Law (Cold Mountain, Closer), Rachel McAdams (The Notebook, Red Eye), Mark Strong (The Young Victoria, Stardust)

Length: 2 hrs 8 mins

Summary: The film begins with famed detective Sherlock Holmes (Downey Jr.) and his partner Dr. John Watson (Law) finishing their last case together.  They stop Lord Blackwood (Strong) just before he commits another ritualistic murder and a few days later witness him hanged for his crimes.  However, Blackwood seemingly comes back from the dead and Holmes and Watson, with some help from Holmes’s old flame Irene Adler (McAdams), try to discover Blackwood’s endgame before he kills anyone else. Read the rest of this entry »

Director Guy Ritchie

Back on December 21st ComingSoon.net published an interview they had with director Guy Ritchie about his newest film Sherlock Holmes. Since the movie opened just this past week, and most of those who had wanted to see it have probably done so, I thought it would be interesting for those of you who have seen the film to read the interview and tell us what from it you learned aside from the information given by Ritchie’s answers. Hindsight is 20/20 as they say, so take a look at the interview and remember the movie to see what you come up with.

As the interviewer points out before the actual transcript, Guy Ritchie obviously does not enjoy the interviewing process. With this in mind, don’t expect elaborate answers. However, there should be enough material to build off of and make your own conclusions.

One question that stood out asked how the involvement of Robert Downey Jr. (an actor known for favoring improvisation and suggesting last-minute changes) fit with a story that’s fairly intricate and thus difficult to reconstruct while filming. I’ll let you all read Ritchie’s response for yourselves.

In other news…

Roland Emerich’s 2012 has broken China’s box-office record with $67.3 million (460 million yuan), with the previous record-holder being Transformers: Rise of the Fallen with $63 million.

Source: Variety