Lock, Stock, and One Intelligent Gentleman Smoking a Pipe?

A couple of weeks ago, I heard that Robert Downey, Jr., has just been cast in a new Sherlock Holmes movie, which wasn’t much news. But today IESB is reporting that not only is Downey, Jr., playing Sherlock Holmes, but that Guy Ritchie (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch) is directing and promising an “action packed” Sherlock Holmes, where Holmes is not only good at “deduction and all that stuff” but is also a skilled martial artist. He promises that the newer, updated version (presumably present day?) has all the elements of the original, Watson included.

I agree, updating the character for the 21st century might be kind of cool, but I’m not sure “action packed” and “martial arts” are exactly what Holmes is all about. And if Ritchie’s previous movies are any indication of what to expect from the Holmes update, we might see Holmes hanging out in a strip club with gangsters, beating the pulp out of a stooge, all the while spewing obscenities that would make Dick Cheney blush.

What do you think? Leave a comment and let me know.

Source: http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5292&Itemid=99