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Twilight SagaNow that Sherlock Holmes is out and the cast and crew is already back on the set, working at its sequel, is maybe time to stop and reflect upon past and future. Seen all the enthusiasm shown by the leading actors and the director and considering the box-office success it’s really no surprise that the movie is going to be followed by another one. And director Guy Ritchie was able enough to set clues and take the door open to a sequel, namely with the special cameo reserved to the top villain in the Sherlock Holmes world, Moriarty himself. Again, it’s no surprise at all that this character was at the center of worlwide fan murmurings, right beside comments to the buddy version of the Holmes-Watson duo played by Robert Downey jr. and Jude Law. The english movie magazine Empire January issue showed an interview with the three, very intersting both for fans and critics of Holmes’s latest appearance: let’s deduce some conclusions from it.
First of all, what kind of movie was Ritchie going to shoot and what do we have to expect from the future? It’s clear that with Sherlock Holmes the main aim was to depict an actual, factual and possibly loyal to Conan Doyle’s work movie, according to Ritchie’s personal style. Focusing on Sherlock Holmes and John Watson characters for first, the director notes:“I wanted a more equal couple. They’re both very physical, which fits well for me. I had always read that Holmes is an action man, and he is an action man. As is Watson -he’s a war hero.” This physical attitude is reflected in the movie by Holmes’s fighting skills: exaggerating with “Snatch”-like boxing scenes? Downey jr. states upon the detective’s approach to the thing: “Holmes tend to fight with his mind –that is, until things get tougher. The ideal situation, and this is true to the more highbrow martial arts, is that you’ve already won before you’ve even had contact, because you’re watching for subtleties...” Not for nothing, the inspiration for action came from the original Conan Doyle’s material, as Law remembers: ”There are huge chunks in the books where Holmes and Watson are waiting for some villainous cad to come out of a door, and then before you know it, they’ve apprehended them. But in a film you have to see how...So there’s a lot of apprehending going on!” Law’s casting itself was on the first kind of surprising, although it came out to be pretty successfull, as noted by his screen partner Downey jr.:”...In the books, Watson was a womaniser -much more than Holmes was. And I also thought that the more kind of attractive and sexy and true-to-form –as Conan Doyle originally described him- that Watson was, the weirder and weirder I could be as Holmes.” And the game must have been so exciting and satisfing for the Iron Man star that he was eager to continue with it.
Work for the sequel has infact already started, and it’s easy to imagine that Moriarty will play a more interesting role...Since a little bit of mistery around an Holmes movie is exactly what we would expect, Ritchie was amused to play with it and with rumours including the american star supposed to embody The Villain: “[Moriarty] he’s just too significant to be ignored. Is there any truth to the rumours that Brad Pitt is in this movie? Might be. (Laughs) Might not be!” And then comes the hot news, thanks to Downey jr.:“...We definitely know that we would like to do for the next two (!) sequels.” So, hear hear, appearently that is what is going to happen in the next years. But how, that’s the question. “I’ve no idea where anything is gonna go.” States again Robert Downey jr. “To tell the truth, I would be happy to just bounce back and forth between Sherlock Holmes and Tony Stark until I am forcibly retired.” How can anyone honestly say that he’s wrong?
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