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Brad Pitt to play Drew McWeeny in SHERLOCK HOLMES 2?
Hey folks, Harry here and the world is going completely screwy. Drew has got to be so pissed off that he's not Moriarty anymore! What a maroon! Man had the chance to wander the Earth bragging that Brad Pitt was playing him in a real live movie, and he goes and takes up the alias, Drew McWeeny! Now - I've heard whispers of additional shooting going on with SHERLOCK HOLMES and my curiousity in this early announcement from Warner Brothers is this... Was the additional shoots regarding a bridge to the next film? Or just enhancing a bit of the film here and there?
SHERLOCK HOLMES is one of the movies that I'm literally freaking out in anticipation of. I loved the script - the casting and I think with this cast and script, Guy Ritchie's style will perfectly complement it all. I think it is an interesting notion... a modern SHERLOCK HOLMES series of new stories featuring the tried and true characters. Attempting to forge its own iconography by shucking off the past conventions with the character.
Very curious on this one. Very curious.
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Now that my TB cherry has been popped, something relevant. I'm really looking forward to this one. The trailers have looked fun, and RDJ is becoming a bit of a Tom Hanks in the sense that all the movies he's been in lately have been great. Sure, Tropic Thunder may not have hit all the right notes, but his character brought a tear to my eye in laughter. Can't wait for Holmes.
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Downey and Pitt? Nice.
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Sep 22, 2009 5:39:26 AM CDT
I preferred Downey Jr when he was a druggie
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
When he wasn't so mainstream. He used to be really interesting. Now he's kind of boring. As for this, I can't really see Pitt as a person of supreme intelligence such as the Moriarty character, but in terms of a Guy Ritchie directed Sherlock Holmes, it probably fits.
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Is this not the same guy who moaned his fucking face off when people watched the Wolverine movie early as he was waiting for the official release from Fox?
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Why? I have read the older script that leaked online, and while granted Im sure changes have been made, I recognize everything ive seen in the footage and trailers, and read about from various set visits, so I doubt much has changed. And frankly I thought the script sucked donkey's balls. The villain is basically a Saterday morning cartoon. He has fuckall motivation, and his plan is so damn cliched. Its basically the same plan as the bad guy in Shanghai knights for fucks sake. And the mystery is so dumbed down and obvious, I was able to guess all the answers to it half way into the script. And that is by far the scripts greatest sin, you as the audiance are thus ahead of Sherlock Holmes. That is the last thing that should happen imho. I love RDJ, and I think a more modern and different approach could really work (even though I dont trust Ritchie one damn bit, I still have nightmares about Swept away aka Vanity project: the movie). But it s really dissapointing that they are going the dumbing down route with this...
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That's what this looks like to me. Not a Sherlock Holmes movie. I worry.
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You might as well have Superman be half-human. Or John McClain be a gay black man.
"shucking off the past conventions with the character"... You people have no fucking clue.
It might be a great movie, and be very entertaining... but that doesn't make it Holmes any more than if I was to put on 400lbs and a ginger wig and then claim to be Harry.
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Pitt was hilarious in Basterds, I can't wait to see his take on McWeeny. I guess it will involve telling a lot of boring anecdotes about his kid and a bunch of wacky pseudo-ethical grandstanding about the amoral film industry.
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pretty damn cool. I like the approach to casting they are taking...
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Sep 22, 2009 6:32:22 AM CDT
"I preferred Downey Jr when he was a druggie"
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
"When he wasn't so mainstream. He used to be really interesting. Now he's kind of boring." Do those sentences actually mean anything other than being empty bullshit fucking hipsterisms?
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Droid is an epic supreme cunt. He'd rather see someone suffer from heroine addiction? Downey was more interesting? Since getting off the smack, he's given us Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man, Tropic Thunder..the list goes on. So Droid...shut the fuck up you sick douche. You're pointless attempt at pretension is disgusting.
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and fyi I posted it before him;)
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then just forget the whole Sherlock film and make another Harry Lockhart - Gay Perry adventure.
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Sep 22, 2009 7:22:59 AM CDT
Fuck Brad Pitt! Hugh Laurie for Moriarty!
by isleptwithkathybatesandallthatigotwasthi
You know it makes sense!
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Since he's been off the drugs, his role choices have been either big-budget shit like Iron Man, or Oscar-bait shit like The Soloist. And he was hailed for a one-note performance which was funnier in the trailer than in the actual flick. Granted, I did like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Now I wouldn't mind if his performances were the same, but he used to be a very interesting actor in even the shittiest flick (like US Marshals) and his role choices were far more interesting, Less Than Zero, NBK or The Singing Detective (which didn't work but was at least an interesting failure) for example. Where the fuck have I said that I want Downey on drugs? For the dumbfucks in the back, I expressed my opinion that I preferred him when he was on drugs because he was much more interesting. I suppose I should have clarified it as 'as an actor' so as not to offend the the knee-jerk cunts in the audience.
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Harry I love you but surely what makes one curious is when Known Element gets given to Talented Director, to hopefully produce Fantastic Film. So, for example, whatever one thought of the final film, putting Ang Lee on THE HULK was ground for curiosity. Having Guillermo Del Toro 'do' Middle Earth is, similarly, going to make me curious. Handing the reigns of Harry Potter to Alfonso Cuaron, or indeed the guy who did State of Play - that made me curious. As was the idea of JJAbrams doing Star Trek. But when Guy Ritchie is attached to a projects - that's like saying you were curious to see what would happen when Brett Ratner did a Hannibal Lector film, or an X-Men Film. Let me sate your curiousity: this will be SHIT. Guy Ritchie's wit is at the level of: 'Is name is Steve the Stutterer. Because he stutters a lot.' The very idea of seeing the amazing world of Sherlock Holmes through the filter of the guy who made Rocknrolla makes me want to chew my arm off.
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Oh, yes...here it is: node/42427
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...of Brad Pitt's being casted in a movie(Brad Pitt? Like the guy and all, but when I first saw the news LAST NIGHT I just thought, huh. didn't matter to me either way). But we haven't had a dvd column in two weeks. I'd have thought that with American Werewolf being released on bluray last week Harry'd jump on that. Guess he's been to busy hanging out with Archie and Jughead( and I can't believe I just wrote that and it's actually relatable).
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loved that fucking movie!
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sequel to RocknRolla. HARRY, FUCK SAKE, UPDATE THE EDITING TO THIS SITE... you guys are behind the WORLD in this regard!
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Wow, the movie is not even out yet, and they have already hired Pitt? The trailers look awful and I don't want a modern Holmes. Holmes was an asexual, misanthropic, genius; not an action hero!
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Like all the Marvel and Pirates movies. That's my guess... Could be cool...
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to play Moriarty? I really don't think so.
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Pitt is a good actor, but his is not the first name of actors you think of when you hear "criminal mastermind". He's not even on the list at all. 'Criminal" yes, "mastermind", not so much.
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Harry, I know Fantastic Fest is going on but is there anyone left to do the DVD column? As of today that's two weeks in a row without one and I'm just hoping this won't be like last year around this time where we didn't see one for a month and a half. Come on, oh captain our captain, someone's got to hold down the fort while the rest are having fun...
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The reason people react to your statement is, whether you intended to or not, you aligned your level of interest (and Downey's script choices) with his substance abuse issues. While I can understand you didn't like Iron Man, it was a movie he did for his son (and one most people enjoyed). For every good film Downey did while he was on the smack, he also did several horrible ones so I just don't personally see that he was more interesting at that time. But to each their own. Peace.
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Brad Pitt vs. Robert Downey Jr. in the first film would be way more interesting...
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I just don't care about this movie. Rock N'Rolla sucked balls. I know its called acting, but why are all of Britains actors playing Americans in American shows, now we got American's playing Brits. Its just all backwards.
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very well, as Singing Detective attests to. But Holmes was both street-wise and book smart. We've yet to see that. On a related note, I second the vote for Laurie, though him play freakin' Holmes would have been even better! Playing a brilliant, misanthropic, drug-addicted, problem solving, antisocial, misunderstood genius with one true friend? ...Naw, what am I thinking? Laurie could never pull that off.
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Sep 22, 2009 10:45:58 AM CDT
colin farrell,simon pegg,or hugh laurie would all be better.
by snikkar124
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If only to hear him struggle with the accent. As an Englishman it's always faintly ridiculous hearing Brad Pitt attempt anything other than a drawl. His Mickey in Snatch, Achilles in Troy...and now Moriarty in Holmes. It'll be another classic to add to his pantheon of shite.
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Really, this is all smelling so very very bad. Warners: you turned around a franchise before, taking the godawful first two Harry Potter films (I just re-watched them, they are only good if you are under 8 or have the equivalent mental age), throwing in Cuaron and capturing lightening in a bottle. Do this again. Harry Potter shows that if something is good, you DON'T NEED American actors. Would you have cast Willem Defoe as Voldemort?
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which indicated Moriarty's high level of intellect in the book? i'm not worried about Pitt's acting chops for the role, but he better not be 'pretty' in this film.
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before you get too ahead of yourself Warner Bros.
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Sep 22, 2009 11:25:03 AM CDT
It's all about the shirtless Holmes and Moriarty battles!
by yackbacker
I haven' read the books, but I assume these movies are faithful adaptations of the shirtless, sweaty confrontations of brute force that have come to symbolize the very essence of Sherlock Holmes. Someone once mentioned he was some sort of a genius or something, but they might have been talking about Steven Hawking instead (another person with the initials SH).
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What will he play in Howard the Duck 2? Mystery Men 2? Catwoman 2?
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OH HOW I DO WANT THOSE JOLLY SCALPS, LADS.
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in the middle of a sentence before. Good thing I made it to the end. phew!
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Really? Its been enough weeks, tell the truth. Did you REALLY like it, or were you just on the band wagon. I'd still like to see it in the $1 theater.
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as I was one of several BILLION people that didn't see it. Sorry, pal...
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Truer to the source, though with a bit more action, and upsetting to those who only know the character through his portrayal in other media.
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Thats what I thought too. Only QT fans saw it over and over and over again. It was to them as Titanic was to fat girls.
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Overblown, desperately failing to be hip, and unfunny.
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Thank you for admitting you haven't read the books. But don't let that stop you from thinking you know what's in them. Moriarty and Holmes do in fact end up in a fight to the death atop a waterfall (not barechested though).
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I'm out.
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or a set up for a sequel, by introducing Moriarty at the end.
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Planning and even CASTING a sequel months before the first one is out? That sounds very overconfident about the success of this franchise. Did this movie already get extremely positive test screenings? I doubt it. I'm going to laugh if the first one gets mediocre box-office returns.
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God, this is why I love this website.
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His reviews made much more sense..........
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Why they didn't go with it, who knows?
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Imagine the Pitt of Fight Club, with Downey, Jr.... Yeah, that could work.
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I personally think Guy Ritchie got Brad Pitts best performance out of him as Mickey 'the pikey' in SNATCH so maybe they'll work together again.
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I'd always assumed that the AICN names were taken from The Goon Show. Harry, the large hero, played Neddy Seagoon who was the unfortunate foil of the two villains: Hercules Grype Type Thyn & Moriarty.
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"a modern style of s.h."? with new approach??? and new stories??? and... he just let´s change the names of that characters... man that would be so modern and new!!! goddammit... i don´t see the connection in this to the story of s.h..... modern or not. it´s just ... let´s say transformers or crap like this in another disguise... obviously.
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Sep 22, 2009 4:19:44 PM CDT
Lol..Um wow..that was a tangeant Knowles with no FACTS
by glory_fades_immaxfischer
Um harry...thought this story was about Pitt being Moriarty..maybe oh I dunno A SOURCE would be nice..instead of "whispers being heard"..thats idiot fucking code for "Hi Im Harry Knowles and I think Brad Pitt shoul play Moriarty because Im still jerking off to Inglourious Basterds"...Seriously Knowles..who is "whispering thi"..besides that busboy at whatever shit restauarant you just ate at
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Sep 22, 2009 4:50:22 PM CDT
This place is sooo much better without Drew and his
by professor_monster
- self bloated high horse. The world would be a better place if it lost him as well.
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If the actor that played Jessie James is given a good Moriarty on paper, I'm fully confident he'll return a good Moriarty on film.
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Sep 22, 2009 5:23:38 PM CDT
This movie must really suck if it needs AICN reporters
by lockesbrokenleg
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slightless bonner. Spiderman 3 anyone?
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by the time he started taking roles in "Less Than Zero", "NBK" and "The Singing Detective" it was clear he had sold out. You bitches should have seen him in his one act "Bobby I Hardly Knew Me" and the prequel to Hamlet I wrote.
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Sep 22, 2009 6:30:00 PM CDT
I preferred Downey when he was a teenage adventurer
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
Before he hit college or had been introduced to the seedy world of DRUGS, he was running around the globe collecting buried treasures, sleeping with foreign ladees and generally being a fucking cad.But, i'll admit that he was also quite good in the prequel to Hamlet that TheJokesOnUs wrote.
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McWeeny! That name explains almost everything...haha.
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...a week or so ago some people were asking about the positive reaction to the Solomon Kane trailer. Harry was positive about it as well, as I recall. I answered that on this site the source material movies are drawn from tend to be treasured, and when people here saw a movie that treated the source material with respect it tended to get a good reaction, and that when it appeared the source material was being discarded or disrespected the reaction was sour. Now I love RDJ and I was quite excited when he was cast for this movie. But I've seen the trailer, and I've heard what is being promised. Harry?
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...that I am not a purist who would need every Doyle trope fulfilled. To my mind two of the best Holmes' films are They Might Be Giants and The Seven Percent Solution. Neither would be regarded as absolutely faithful (in they might be giants Holmes isn't even Holmes. But both these movies (and the book and play they were based on) showed a knowledge of and affection for what they were drawn from. I hope to be proven wrong by the movie but to this point what we are seeing is the Emmerich Godzilla of Holmes' movies.
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Gain 40 lbs(more or less). Trowel on greasepaint ghost beard/goatee. Say to self-'achingly beautiful' a few times. Hate on Hitchcock and write a few things for Carpenter. Nothin' to it. Oh and sell DVDs. Always wanna do the method.
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I mean not the LOOK of it, it just LOOKS bad from the preview. Fuck a bunch of revisionist Sherlock Holmes, give me tha real shit!
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I forgot about that. That will be funny. I think being able to master different accents is the sign of a truly skilled actor. It kind of amazes me what poor jobs lots of people do.
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Right after he does The Green Hornet.
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oh man, the promise he had. Then he had to go and get addicted to applesauce (foreshadowing!) and watching that sellout "Sesame Street" show instead of the more culturally significant yet little-known "Hipster Tots". Then it was all over. Has a new AICN meme been created? Thanks Droid!
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It's mental. 3 states here are blanketed by red dust storms, can't see more than 200 ft away and everything is red.
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Sep 22, 2009 9:58:05 PM CDT
why do i even bother reading what you stupid dickshits have to s
by therealrockinrolla
all you do is bitch
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Sep 22, 2009 10:02:07 PM CDT
Update, you can stare directly at the sun and it is blue.
by outlawsdelejos
Visibility is less than a 100ft and everything smells like dirt.
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search your feelings, you know it to be true
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I don't get the nerds who complain about Pitt - the guy is cool. I'm not sure what the issue is. My parents' generation was glad to have guys like Paul Newman and Robert Redford making good at the box office...now it is Clooney and Pitt and they are equal to, if not better than, their forefathers and still we have nerdly nerds shitting on them because...dunno. Integrity? Chops? What is it? Redford never gave us a Fight Club (three days of the condor?) and Newman...well, Clooney will need to work awhile longer to settle into those shoes. He was already a legend with Hud. So, still you are throwing out names like Simon Pegg? or the guy from House? (yes, I've seen black adder, dipshit - sit down). Yes, let us make the most tiresomely britishy franchise ever be even more britishy. Let us pour tea on it and then mix it up with some bangers and mash. Oy! Or Christoph Waltz? Really? Who you have seen in exactly one movie, ever, in your sad life. The one with Brad Pitt. Way to go, ass. This is why our country is doomed.
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I don't think I've ever watched any Sherlock Holmes stuff. I don't know who Moriarty is. Which one should I watch?
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You thought about reading one of the books instead?
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... what, like you just did?
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"Pitt should be most movies". That's brilliant. I needed a good laugh this morning. Brad Pitt is not an actor, he's a movie star. The only films he's any good in tend to allow him to riff on his own laid-back personality. Yes, I'll concede that he looks great - just like Robert Redford, in fact - but that's where it ends.
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The way this is being handled is still horrible. Warners, what the hell are you doing? Who the hell is producing this? In what way is leaking info that Brad Pitt may play Moriarty going to give ANYONE any faith in this project? Look, Brad is BRILLIANT at certain roles. I loved him in BURN AFTER READING. But his version of serious acting is just to say his lines v-e-r-y... s-l-o-w-l-y. The idea of him doing his Interview with a Vampire schtick again gives me chills...
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Uh, no...actually, Pitt is a character actor who happens to look like a leading man. Redford never took roles like 12 Monkeys, Kalifornia, True Romance, Snatch, Fight Club, Jesse James, even Inglorious...those are character roles and Redford, while great at what he did, never had much range. Even the role in which Redford cast Pitt,in A River Runs Through It, is a character role. He is a great actor - think back over those roles I've mentioned and tell me I'm wrong...go on, I'll wait...Right? No, don't apologize, it's fine. Many make the same mistake.
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Because his British accent in Bram Stoker's Dracula was so spot on. And because he comes off at least as smart a Brad Pitt.
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Why in God's name would I do that?
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Fair enough.
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I kid, I kid. Just joining the gang in riffing on that chuckle-head's, droid's, comment. Reminds me of the pretentious douche bags that hang out at the cafe down the block from my apartment, with their soul patch, their tiny midget yappy dogs and their white macbooks.
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...Brad Pitt playing a character named "McWeeny." Seems like a no-brainer if you ask me. ;-P
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I like his script for Cigarette Burns. Smart guy, that.
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Lets start casting for the second Percy Jackson movie while we are at it. It has just as much a shot of being good as this. Lets see that makes 11 chickens I have.
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I, the great American cinema going public will decide if there is to be another installment of this tripe. Not some A-lister or a bunch of slick-willy Hollywood types in their 2000 dollar suits. You fucking got me? And Lo, the date of my decision shall be Dec 25. I should also say this better be fucking good as it's dragged me away from my Turkey and Cranberry sauce, you Hollywood motherfuckers, you. For if it is not of quality, my vengeance shall be unforgiving. Your cinemas will be so quiet you will be able to hear a mouse pissing on cotton. You have been warned, suits. You have been warned.
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Sep 25, 2009 8:31:35 AM CDT
I preferred Orbots Commander...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
when he wasn't a useless, whinging bag of cocks. Jesus tittyfucking christ, you precious little cunt. You're obviously too much of a halfwit to understand, so I will spell it out for you. During the lengthy period when Downey Jr was addicted to drugs, I found his performances and role choices to be interesting. Since he has cleaned up, his performances haven't quite been the same, a bit lifeless and his role choices have been incredibly bland. As I said, big bidget shit, or Oscar-bait shit. Hence "I preferred Downey Jr when he was a druggie" At no stage did I say that I preferred him ON drugs, or that I preferred him to BE a druggie. I was merely pointing out the difference between the two periods of his career. In the unlikely event that you do read this, you can take your whinging knee-jerk reactions and fuck off back to your friends with the soul patches, tiny midget yappy dogs and white macbooks.
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Fuck it!
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A Scanner Darkly, Iron Man. That is the happy medium. Acting one might call it.
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I'M LOOKING FOR LOTS OF SWORD FIGHTING AND SNAKEBITES HERE, PEOPLE. IF ANYONE CAN DELIVER, IT'S GUY.
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