Neil Marshall To Direct Sherlock Holmes
Last summer there was a report of a new Sherlock Holmes movie coming to the big screen. It was going to be a live action movie directed by Chicken Little director Mark Dindal, but it didn’t involve Sherlock Holmes himself. Rather the movie was going to be about a tenant who lives at 221b Baker Street and receives a letter addressed to the fictional sleuth, and decides to take on the case. Yawn.
Well now it looks like Warner Bros are planning a proper Sherlock Holmes franchise reboot, and strangely they’ve chosen Neil Marshall (The Descent) to helm a new movie based on the character. Neil Marshall? Really? Well, I suppose he is British (which should be a prerequisite for any Sherlock Holmes movie) and although I loved The Descent it seems like a strange choice. Coming Soon makes reference to the fact that they hope he can reinvent the character “in the same edgy way that Christopher Nolan has reimagined Batman for the studio”. Man I’m really starting to hate the word “edgy”.
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I love Sherlock Holmes. I don’t get the Batman reference though, are they really expecting this to become a major hit franchise? Unless by ‘reinvent’ they mean ‘change and dumb down’.
There is a reason it hasn’t worked on film so far. Watching somebody think on screen fucking sucks. Reading thoughts in a book works excellently. I also read that this movie would feature some of Holmes’ lesser known skills like boxing and sword fighting. So we’re gonna get an edgy action-hero movie with a franchise name slapped onto it. This is frustrating.
Just read the fucking books, people? They aren’t very long, most of them are actually comprised of short stories.
That aside, playing Sherlock Holmes would fucking kick ass. At least the Sherlock Holmes in the novels, which I’m sure will have nothing in common with the one in this new edgy Batman Begins-esque movie. The next piece of news is that it’s going to be set in the modern day I’m sure, or even the future like the Batman movie.
Posted by Henrik on March 16th, 2007I can think of one man that would give this the proper treatment…Nicholas Meyer.
Posted by Jay C. on March 16th, 2007Leave a Reply