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Moriarty Ponders The Motivations Of Warner Bros In Making SHERLOCK HOLMES!
Dear Warner Bros.,
What happened?
I thought we were friends.
And then I see that you’ve hired a fairly talented writer and a fairly talented director, and you’re planning to make a franchise film in which you portray one SHEEEEEEEEEEER-LUCK Holmes as a hero.
Yet again.
How sad. How predictable. And how personally painful to me. Everyone who knows the true story knows that Professor Moriarty is the wronged party, and that Holmes was a liar and a braggart and a fraud. If you had any courage as a corporation, you would allow me to tell my side of things for once instead of simply glorifying that heroin addict and his fat ladyboy, Watson.
Here’s the reason I’m going to cry myself to sleep tonight.
Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles
Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles
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Love Sherlock Holmes movies
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Mar 16, 2007 4:51:53 AM CDT
Christ, a film about Holmes, based on a... COMIC BOOK?!
by jackpumpkinhead
Travesty. As sickening as "The Quickening"
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Batsiches at WB are going to rape you in the ass sans lube AGAIN on this story.You should go Mommy Dearest and tell YOUR side of the story yourself....
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I've actually been reading a bit of Sherlock Holmes lately. I don't recall him punching anyone. Really the "Victorian stuffiness" is what makes the stories compelling, as you get the same information as Holmes, but quite like Watson, are completely flabbergasted by where the evidence leads. So yeah... Sherlock Holmes punching someone and having a swordfight... sounds like it will be a huge franchise... like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. That was huge and critically acclaimed...wasn't it?
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The man is already batting 2 for 2 as far as I'm concerned and I'd look forward to a really good Holmes movie.
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...and that is/was Jeremy Brett from the outstanding british TV-Series. But he's long dead, which is somewhat of a probem...
Anyway, the "more adventurous" approach sounds bad. "Young Sherlock Holmes" for instance was awful. But as the direcor ist the "Descent"-guy it could actually work, as The Descent was the most terrifying horror-thriller in 2005, hands down. -
of Holmes as portrayed by the late Jeremy Brett... and it was a awesome series. not sure if the sound of "holmes as a action franchise" sits entirely well with me... but if it was well done it would be more welcome than a ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK remake!!!
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Remember Van Helsing...
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I loved The Descent so I know Marshall can make an exciting movie, and I like the idea of bringing Holmes back into the movie world again. He's a great character, so is his villain, Watson less so but meh.
But still, an all-action Holmes? This could be good, and I hope it is, but it could also very easily be Van Helsing or League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, two of the dullest, trumped-up let-downs of the past five years.
Re-invent Holmes as WB did Batman? One problem there, Batman was already an action hero - one that WB seems to have forgotten only needed re-inventing on film because they destroyed it with the excrable Schumacher films. I'm with caninedevotion above, the stuffiness, the Victoriana of Holmes is part of it. But I'm not so closed minded i'm not intrigued, just concerned that WB - which has consistently let me down on summer blockbusters through my life (more than any other studio) - won't pull it off.
Still, loved Batman Begins so we'll see I guess.
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you got in there with the Van Helsing thing while i was waffling. Great minds... as they say!
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I'm pretty certain that Marshall won't go nuts with the action scenes ala Sommers did with Van Helsing. I just don't think we're going to see Sherlock swinging from every thing he possibly can.
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Anyone else notice or have an explanation for why Variety's articles are written so very strangely? If you look at their articles they just strike me as being written rather peculiarly. Anyone else notice this? Or have an explanation for it?
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Damn you Michael Bay
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You'd think his Nemesis would know that.
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Variety has its own dictionary (they do you can find it on the website) so they write all articles in their 'style'. The peculiarity you mention is the fact that any sane, English-speaking person can't understand hald of what they are talking about. It's just pretentious rubbish so make them look special, like a child making up its own language. Variety is an offense to those who cherish language. Read Hollywood Reporter or Screen International instead, they are just as good, get more of the non-Hollywood stories first and can actually write English.
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..i prefer basil rathbone to jeremy brett.
Lets hope we don't go into matt frewer territory or anything like the seven-per-cent solution, that was awful and holmes was plain annoying in it. -
ahh thank you, yes. i have read articles by them in the past on few occasions where i notice they seem to begin their sentences with some misplaced nouns and such with no possessive, among other things. thanks again.
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That post is actually a good idea for a script. Get writing!
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A cry to indicate the urgency with which one requires a lavatory. "I answered the urgent hammering on the door. It was Holmes, in the guise of a greek admiral, and posessed of a wild expression the likes of which I had never seen before. 'What is it Holmes?' I expostulated. 'Why its three in the morning.' 'No time for explanations Watson,' he gasped as he pushed past me towards my water closet. 'The first two inches are cold.' (from 'The case of the great big shit', by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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Sure, and a month from now it will come true.
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Why not make that instead? That was supposed to be a killer script I believe. Or did that turdfest Van Helsing bury it?
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He's had so many TV outings, it'll be refreshing to see him on a big screen.
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You should be excited that Neil Marshall has been hired to bring back "the Holmes"
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while on tv he is the definitive Holmes. On Screen the definitve Holmes is/was Basil Rathbone. or Peter Cushing.
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... the magazine that refuses to start any sentence with "The," "A," or any type of pronoun? Or am I thinking of something else?
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You a viz fan mate? Sounds like a good profanisaurus entry lol
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See that Excellent Series the bbc did Starring The Late great Ian Richardson based on the real life Pathologist Proffesor Joseph Bell (i think?)that Conan Doyle used as Sherlcok Holmes. It was called Murder Rooms and superb it is too. From 2001. There were 4 of them. This was followed by a series of One off 2 hr tv movies that Starred Rupert Everett amongst others. Utterly Cheap, poorly acted rubbish. Tea time dross
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Oh yes it has changed my life!
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I'm in the UK and loved Murder Rooms - particularly the first 2-parter. I was always disappointed that they didn't make any more. It was poorly treated by the BBC. But now that Richardson is gone no-one else could possibly play Bell. The books by David Pirie (creator of the show) are pretty damn good too.
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That the series on UK TV with Jeremy Brett has got to be the definitive Sherlock Holmes for me.
The BBC wernt scared to show his drug addiction and the darker side of someones personality that comes with it.
They are being reshown on freeview over here and I have caught a few... they still Rock! -
"I've actually been reading a bit of Sherlock Holmes lately. I don't recall him punching anyone." In ( I believe) A Study in Scarlet, it is stated that Holmes was a boxer and an expert swordsman or fencer. In The Speckled Band Holmes took a bent fireplace poker and straightened it. I will get the exavt quotes when I get home, but this take is not outside the novels.
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I've read the Sherlock Holmes stories numerous times, including the pastiches. The Rathbone movies never made it for me, especially with the dumbification of Dr. Watson. When I first saw Jeremy Brett as Homes, I knew that this was Holmes done right. Not only does this include the way Brett played Holmes, but Dr. Watson was given back his dignity.
Furthermore, having read Holmes v. Dracula (forget the actual title), I would love to see that treated properly on the screen.
Here's hoping that those involved in production do their homework and give Holmes and Watson their props.
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Wilson is NOT my boyfriend. I am not gay. I am all about the fuzz. Now give me some Vicodin. STAT! Double STAT?!?!
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... is to re-imagine Sherlock Holmes based on what he would be nowadays. Make him a londonian PI, keep the links with Scotland Yards, keep Dr Watson, keep what was rarely kept in the movies : addictions, near lunacy... Vincent d'Onofrio is a kind of Holmes in Law & Order, always has an answer based on observation and logic... Just take a good old Holmes story and adapt it in modern times...
They tried something like this with "Zero Effect" (Bill Pullman), and they have the opporunity to do it better, and staying true to Holmes spirit. -
Sylvester Stallone as Holmes!!!! Jaon Favreau as Watson!!
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Sylvester Stallone as Holmes!!!! John Favreau as Watson!!
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What a fine Holmes he was; listless, then bounding about with manic energy; crowing with sudden laughter, barking in rage, curled up with his pipe for hours pondering. And don't forget his two excellent Watsons: David Burke and Edward Hardwicke. You need a good Watson, not a buffoon, to make a good Holmes.
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in The Solitary Cyclist. The man was a dirty, ginger-mustached bounder who threatened ladies' honor, the cad.
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and Michael Clarke Duncan for Watson.
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Jeremy Brett was ok...for a tv Holmes. The real king was Basil Rathbone. Check out the 14 films in which he protrayed Holmes and you'll agree. The movies themselves didnt portray the heroin angle, but aside from that they were spot on!
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He already plays him so well in the heavily Holmes-inspired "House".
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'Twould be interesting if they did, but I really don't see it happening. I'm not sure who should be the new Holmes, however...Gerard Butler, maybe?
Oh, and Basil Rathbone pwns Jeremy Brett. Always has, always will.
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When filmed, the Sherlock Holmes stories work best as hour long TV shows, allowing the characters to unfold rather than throwing everything at the screen in one bite. Also the Brett show allowed him to be a tough guy on occasion but mostly an intellectual, rather than the swashbuckler they seem to want here. Anyone remember the Young Sherlock movie? They tried to do something similar there, with a love interest and sword-fighting and guys - it was fucking bollocks. I doubt any movie now will be able to deliver a decent Holmes because from the article, the studio seems to want a franchise and a franchise demands spectacle. Holmes isn't about spectacle, it's about intelligence & attention to detail. Next they'll be trying to make a big screen version of Columbo, with Josh Hartnett or something
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He was a cocaine and morphine addict, not a heroin addict. Heroin didn't become popular until around 1898 when Felix Hoffman re-synthisized it. Maybe Moriarty is still fuming from the spanking Harry gave him over his totally insensitive comments about Anna Nicole Smith a while back. While I didn't admire Smith at all, I lost all respect for Moriarty over it...showing that he just turned into a self-centered Hollywood type who cares little for other human beings.
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How about the following:
Sherlock Holmes: JEREMY NORTHAM,
Dr Watson: HUGH BONNEVILLE,
Moriarty: DAVID WARNER,
Mrs Hudson: ANNETTE CROSBIE,
Inspector Lestrade: TIMOTHY SPALL,
Mycroft Holmes: STEPHEN FRY
I also think Richard E Grant would be a good Holmes. He played Stapleton in the most recent Hound of the Baskervilles on TV and it was abundantly clear that he was much better suited to Holmes than Richard Roxburgh, who played the role. Of course noone will ever touch Rathbone in the role, but that's no reason to put the great detective out to pasture for good. -
years ago, I was working as a clerk at Suncoast Video. Customer comes in looking for a Sherlock Holmes video for her brother-in-law. I show her our selection -- mainly, the Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett movies. What's the difference, she asks. I explain that the Rathbone ones were theatrical films mostly in the 1940s. And the Brett films, they were made for British TV. She wrinkles her nose and says "But are they in English?"
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And Ben Kingsley as "The Crime Doctor". Fighting their nemesis Arty Morty...
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Just wondering how many of the Rathbone fans actually read the Holmes stories or is their point of reference the inferior Holmes movies w/Rathbone? Just wondering.
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Just wondering what you all thought of Rupert Everett as Holmes in 'The Case Of The Silk Stocking' I got my own VHS/DVD shop and this always sells out straight away on DVD - To be honest anything Sherlock Holmes (whoever the actor) is a great seller for me!
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He already did that terrible movie where Holmes was a stupid self -promoter and Watson was the brains behind it all. So he doesn't get a second shot. Actually I thought Rupert Everett was pretty good in that BBC thing he did as Holmes. Why not cancel the whole thing and do a Rome spin-off with Vorenus & Titus Pullo going around solving crimes? There'd be plenty of punching and swordfighting in that.And lots and lots of lovely bloodspray
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I grew up watching Rathbone as a kid - late show - and loved him. I have never read the novels. Regardless, this sounds like tripe - utter garbage. Expected, though. There have been some interesting "versions" through the years.
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...and Rathbone's still better as Holmes. The problem is, the films (especially when set in WWII) are "inferior" mostly because of the depiction of Watson and plot inaccuracies when compared to Doyle's works. On the other hand, those films have considerably more charm than the Brett TV series and the earliest of the Rathbone films are extremely entertaining. Yeah, Nigel Bruce's Watson was far too bumbling, but he and Rathbone had incredible chemistry together.
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"The Return of Sherlock Holmes" (TV 1987) - "Sherlock Holmes is brought back to life by Watson's female decendent after being cryogentically frozen for eighty years ." We've passed "beating a dead horse" by 20 years.
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was another very good Holmes, the nearly best beside Cushing, but not on par with Jeremy Brett. And the Rathbone Holmes-movies? Come on, Holmes fighting-Nazi-propaganda-crap with his superstupid sidekick Watson, are you serious when comparing that nonsense with the Brett-TV-Series?
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God, I fucking hate Variety.
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following: Basil The great mouse detective, the adventures of Shirley Holmes, Young Sherlock Directed by Barry Levinson, produced by the Berg and of course Granada tvs legendary Sherlock Holmes Starring Brett. Movie /trivia Buffs will of course know that Brett was also a very fine singer and dancer. The highlight of My Fair lady is Brett's magnificent and soaring performance of Street where you live, did anyone see the london based stage show from two decades ago. Or read bretts biography.
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How about a Bollywood version of Sherlock Holmes? Or do the whole thing in Aramaic?
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Sounds promising, especially the parts where is says they'll play up his bare-knuckle boxing skills and his sword craft
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Now we all know that Moriarty is the dispicable and murderous Rathe a.k.a Eh Tar from Young Sherlock Holmes. I mean come on the guy bathes young virgins in hot wax while dressed as a giant dog. That's EVIL!!!!(and just a little bit kinky)
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Mar 16, 2007 9:36:10 AM CDT
I just watched The Great Mouse Detective a few days ago
by osmosis jones
Weird coincidence. Yeah, turning Holmes into a butt-whupping victorian Batman knockoff will ruin the character. You'd think with the 500 CSI shows on the air that they'd trust the sleuthing element to be enough of a draw for fans.
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For the love of god... this is going to end up as some quasi-Victorian Disney world like LXG.
Brett was Holmes, even Doyle approved of his portrayal (through a medium of course).
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He really hammed it up. Super ham. More faithful to the stories? Yeah, but that doesn't make him a better actor.
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Sherlock Holmes vs Adrian Monk! And we all know the winner!
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"Elementary, Watson - I know kung fu!"I don't know. In Doyle's stories Holmes is just as quick to engage in fisticuffs as use his mind. But, he's not some action hero - he just knows how the underworld operates.I just hope we don't see Victorian-Steampunk body armor with rubber nipples.
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"You limey cocksucker, get the hell out of my hospital!"
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"This woman was raped, Mr. Holmes.""Hmph. She is dressed like a trollop - no doubt she was seeking the illicit company of a man.""You're not saying she was asking for it?!?""She is a painted Jezebel."
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Interesting side-note...at the last minute, Disney changed the name from "Basil of Baker Street" to "The Great Mouse Detective." (Except in UK, where it remained.)It led to a series of articles contemplating generic names for past Disney classics. ("Flying Boy," "Deer," blah, blah.)
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Michael Caine in Without A Clue: "I've got it! His real name was Arty Morty! What the devil am I talking about?"
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I've been saying they need to make a Sherlock Holmes film for years. Now they're finally listening...to some producer guy who thought it was time to drag this icon out of storage.
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And so did Holmes . . .
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You know you want it. Lay off of my Fing coat mother fing Watson!
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Hey, he knows the role. Though I'm not sure about his boxing ability... And there's a "Van Helsing" fanbase out there. So watch what you say. >:(
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In RUSH HOLMES III!!!!
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Nailed it - fucking nailed it! But yeah .... it will go to Affleck and Matty. Maybe they'll find time to do this between Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
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I sincerely hope not because I love the Sherlock Holmes stories and I want this to be great!
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That sounds about the level this is working on. A two-fisted action Holmes reinventing his relationship with Watson-- kill me now. No one should make big screen Holmes movies any more, they're better suited to shorter format TV, even Masterbiece Theater messes them up when it tries to to do a 2-hr. Holmes (like that awful Rupert Everett one). These days, any time you have to expand the story to be big enough to support a 2-hour epic movie, it gets too overblown and ruins the cozy domestic side of the characters. What we need is a new Holmes TV series with Richard E. Grant.
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They could have some black guy like Mos Def to be Watson.And they could have some rap artist who has a shelf life of 4 months to do the "theme" song.
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I mean it's not like Batman or Superman where the subject matter is higly protected. We all know who he is but if someone could punch it up a bit and make it alot less stuffy (i love the bareknuckle thing and sword fighting) without going to outrageous and campy it would be great. I'm in line for another Flash Gordon as well,just leave Snake alone.
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Yes, I am so very kidding.
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"reinvent the sleuth and his loyal No. 2 Dr. Watson in much the same edgy way"... It has been done to death, Holmes in every variation, young, modern, playing up the coke fiend, making Watson the real smart one etc etc. Instead of reimaging stuff Hollywood, how about, I don't know, imaging something...
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'From The imprint of his shoes, Watson, I deduce that our quarry is a left handed doctor of unusually short stature, who has known prosperity but has lately fallen on hard times. And by the short, irregular length of his stride, it is apparent that he has a mole at the counter,' said Holmes.' (From The Case Of The Speckled Bowl' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).
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Had two release names in the UK - both "Basil of Baker Street" (initial release), and "Basil, The Great Mouse Detective" (video/DVD)
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Has anyone seen the HOLMES comic by Omaha Perez? Holmes and Watson are reinvented Hunter Thomson style, going on a paranoid booze, coke, and opium-addled rampage through Victorian London. http://searchintodestroy.blogspot.com/
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who's MIchael Bay and why do you damn him. Wait...isn't that from some TB from like last year? You're still around? seriously, think of something new..
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ohmygod. What a fuckin BAD idea. The only good thing is that Holmes is a public-domain character, so somebody else will kickstart the character before WB gets this flick off the ground.
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"I'm goddamn Sherlock Holmes!"There is no way this can come off good unless Hollywood decides it's time to make a good, old-fashioned *mystery* and not an action-suspense-thriller.When the trailer hits, if Watson yells "Nooooooooo!!!" I am going to hunt down the director.
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Is basically what this is. I agree with you, SexyBack, they should have made a sequel to that underappreciated gem. However, with Marshall attached, I think this is actually a pretty good idea. What I suspect Warners is hoping for is a period James Bond. Great idea if they can pull it off.
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Get Hugh Laurie to play it. He already does on House anyway.
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But seriously have Johnny Depp try it. He was similar in From Hell.
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Get Hugh Laurie to play it. He already does on House anyway.
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Please don't turn this into an iconoclastic drug-road-trip movie! I'm gonna puke.
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WB is becoming FOX and FOX is becoming WB.
So now i expect shitty movies from WB and decent movies from FOX.
It all started by firing Whedon from WW and goyer from flash
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I'm pretty sure it was cocaine.
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It was Prof. Moriarty.
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Hey, first post on here. Looking up at the Paul Bettany suggestion, that's a corker. Kevin McKidd and Paddy Considine are both fine British actors and both have the intensity to play Moriarty. Bettany would also actually make a cracking Moriarty.
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the other night and thought how cool it would be to make a new SH movie now. Just please, keep it in the same era, don't modernize.
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...in They Might Be Giants, and then a band stole the name. But it was a great re-telling.
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That would be a phenomenal Holmes story to do. And it'd make Moriarty here quite happy. For those who haven't read it yet: http://www.neilgaiman.com/exclusive/shortstories/emerald.pdf (remove the spaces)
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Baritsu a derivative of Ju Jitsu was popular in England during the time of Sherlock Holmes and featured in a Holmes story.
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Oh, and the dancing Harry is based on a Betty Boop cartoon, right?
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andy dick for watson
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"Elementary, My Nizzle!"
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The idea of Hugh Laurie...brilliant. That's why you can be sure that they won't cast him. Besides, the studios will cast kids, like Orlando Bloom or the Harry Potter kid, thinking this is a franchise that will go on forever and pay the college tuition of their great great grandkids. I don't understand why people casting movies and TV shows these days always think that kids only relate to kids onscreen. I grew up watching with adults in them. I don't remember any of my friends saying, "I'm not going to see Ghostbusters because there are no kids in it."
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And he clocked some guy? I remember the Brett version involving a lot of slugging.
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He spent his whole time fighting the Nazis and other idiocies, wasn't a drug-addict and his Watson (Nigel Bruce)was mentally retarded. He just looked like Sidney Paget's pictures in The Strand: apart from that he sucked as Holmes.
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* The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
* The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
* Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
* Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)
* Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
* Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
* The Spider Woman (1944)
* The Scarlet Claw (1944)
* The Pearl of Death (1944)
* The House of Fear (1945)
* The Woman in Green (1945)
* Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
* Terror by Night (1946)
* Dressed to Kill (1946)
Only TWO of those are related in any way to Conan Doyle's stories. Fuck Basil Rathbone. -
"He was beaten to death with a blunt excement!" Genius. I always loved that movie and still have it on video. Great to see some love out there. Come on Ben Kingsleys in it too.
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There's a PC game out at the moment which has Holmes tackling Lovecraftian horrors and minions of Cthulu. That would absofuckinglutely rule as a film.
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I think it was in The Solitary Cyclist where he chins some ruffian who takes a swing at him in a pub.
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(I provided the link above)
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Who knew he was into necrophilia?
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He's still alive, he can play it! And he was so fucking bad ass!
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I thought it was life of author plus 70. but the article references the Doyle Estate. Corporate creations have up to 120 years of protection (thank you Sonny Bono), but I wouldn't think Holmes would qualify. I have been expecting a deluge of Holmes and Lovercraft projects.
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Variety is if anything a trade magazine. Of course, it has developed a larger readership then most other trade magazines, but that's still mainly its purpose. Other trades have lingo that is particular to that trade. Ways of describing things specific to that career or vocation. That is what Variety does. It uses terms that people in the industry or those who read the magazine regularly understand. It's been doing so since 1905. Sure, some of it's terms are odd and hard to understand, and some of the recently made up ones do seem pretentious, but don't forget that now common day words like "D.J." or "sitcom" first appeared in Variety. I'm also sure it has a lot to do with saving space in publication. Writing "pic" is shorter then "motion picture" or "picture" or even "movie" or "film". And the Hollywood Reporter is in now way preferable to Variety. HW tend to simply reprint press releases, while Variety tries to actually do some reporting. I remember a particular case that i wrote a paper on, where HW printed a very dry article about a certain executive and studio parting ways, while Variety wrote, on the same subject, the possible reasons why the executive had been fired by the studio. I concluded in that paper that, in in a small way, Variety tend to side with the artist or individual, while HW is backing the studios and large companies.
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Yes. That would be nice.I would love to see Holmes gripping his pipe and facing off against a band of cultists who have opened the Gateway.Yeah, it was the Solitary Cyclist where Holmes chins some bastard.
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He is not fucking Superman; some bit of yank detritus to be sent off to fight for the American Way. NONE of Basil Rathbone's films bore the slightest resemblance to the literary character Sherlock Holmes except The Hound of the Baskervilles. You might as well say the best Dracula was the one in Van Helsing.
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Last time I checked, Hitler wasn't too fond of eel pie and scones.
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us the inner workings of the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Compared to that film, anything else will be superfluous and unnecessary. And redundant.
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"The Big Dick IS BACK and he has soooo got a raging clue"
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Is a tyro scribe a writer who happens to be a dictator of a small third world country, as in tyrant scribe? Anybody? What's with Variety's special words? Tyro, skein, etc.
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Christian Bale, Guy Pierce, or Ralph Fiennes.
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Geoffrey Rush, or David Bowie!
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This movie will suck sooooo bad.
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We have the technology...
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"It was a night like any other, when suddenly a knock came at the door. I opened it, and there were these Manchurians, doing a rather festive Carribean dance..."
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expecting Hollywood to write a smart script about smart people is a lot to ask.
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Hellboy's attempt was right poor in my opinion.
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Or Jason Isaacs. Watson? Paul Giametti. But as I'm not a Hollywood exec, why should I be surprised when they try to cast Whoopi Goldberg and a big animated dinosaur or some such shite. Heck, thinking about it, Bill Pullman was a decent Holmes ripoff in Zero Effect. Stick some muttonchops on that man this very instant, I say.
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Basil Rathbone didn't write the scripts. That's like hating someone because they're short -- it's BEYOND THEIR CONTROL! As for Nigel being mentally retarded...I'll stipulate that.
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My one and only point is that it's ridiculous for Rathbone to be generally elected 'best Holmes ever' based ona body of work that only vaguely resembles the stories by which Sherlock Holmes is defined. What if the 'Best Dracula ever' didn't drink blood, come from Transylvania or flee sunlight?
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Sean Pertwee
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would make an excellent Holmes, Billy Connolly for Watson and after seeing The Prestige I'd like to see David Bowie play Moriarti, they could really fill the screen with talent since a WB movie as they did with Batman Begins and the older cast members of Harry Potter, I'd love to see Gary Oldman, Patrick Stewart, Tim Curry and Richard E. Grant getting screentime in this type of film.
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Pretty much a certainty.
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Man that's the film I want to see. Let Coppola have another go at Dracula, and bring Oldman with him!
Guy Pearce as Holmes
Jim Broadbent as Watson.
Bettany as Moriarty
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Holmes entered the drawing-room, clutching a lemon in his right hand. 'Now Watson, I'm going to take this lemon and shove it up your bottom.' 'But why, Holmes?' I inquired. 'A lemon entry, my dear Watson!'
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It's too bad that even if House were not on the air, I'd still probably suggest Hugh Laurie and Robert Sean Leonard as Holmes and Watson, but since neither will get the parts because of the success of the show, here's my second string cast.
Sherlock Holmes- Richard E. Grant
Dr. Watson- Daniel Craig
Professor Moriarty- Malcolm McDowell
Sebastian Moran- Jim Broadbent
Inspector LeStrade- Jim Carter
Mycroft Holmes- Stephen Fry or Jeffrey Jones
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