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Twilight SagaWhile you may be surprised to see upcoming trailers of the classic detective Sherlock Holmes featuring Robert Downey Jr without the characteristic deerstalker hat, you'll have only scratched the surface of the changes wrought to the character author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced to the world in fifty-six short stories and four novels.
This December, the famous classic detective, Sherlock Holmes, is getting a makeover at the hands of Director Guy Ritchie. So revamped is the new Holmes, that Doyle's mysteries have been left in the dust, with a fresher Holmes plot in their place - still based on original characters of Doyle's creation - but with an action-packed plot from an upcoming comic book by producer Lionel Wigram. In an interview with Variety, Wigram alluded to the new Holmes as more adventurous than previous roles held him to be, loosing his "Victorian stuffiness," and "playing up his skills as a bare-knuckle boxer and excellent swordsman."
As created by Doyle, Holmes was a swordsman, a master boxer, and skilled in martial arts, but the original Holmes of Doyle's short stories never explored these venues, opting instead for an intellectual tangent: brain over brawn. From initial trailers featuring explosions, fist fights, daring escapes, and somewhat criminal-looking mystery solving, the new Sherlock Holmes looks something like Victorian James Bond: less bikinis, more corsets, and - not to be forgotten - Dr. Watson at his side.
The film pits Sherlock Holmes against a new deadly villain, Lord Blackwood, whose plot threatens to destroy the nation. Holmes is, of course, accompanied by his highly capable and often more sensible partner, Watson, as the two men attempt to unravel the mystery and not be unraveled themselves by the mysterious Irene Adler.
Starring Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes and Jude Law as his trustworthy assistant, Dr. Watson, with Rachel McAdams and Mark Strong. Sherlock Holmes hits theatres 25th December, 2009.
With what we can see so far, this writer's question is then: In the same way that Casino Royale brought background to the Bond character, and the 2002 Spiderman brought the "human" element into the "superhuman" movie, can the new Holmes bring "modern" to the Victorian mystery?
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