Flashy British director and paramour to Madonna, Guy Richie, signed on for an adaptation of Sherlock Holmes says the Hollywood Reporter. Radness.
Richie’s style is consistent(ly awesome) in his previous films Snatch, Lock, Stock, and 2 Smoking Barrels. They’re both heist movies with fast cuts, and faster dialogue. Maybe that’s just because I’m used to Brittish movies being more like A Room, With a View, and a Staircase, and a Pond.
Guy Ritchie has signed on to write and direct a reimagining of super sleuth Sherlock Holmes for Warner Bros.
Lionel Wigram and Dan Lin are producing the movie, which takes its cues from a forthcoming comic that Wigram wrote as a selling tool for a new take on the classic Sir Arthur Conan Doyle character. The concept sees the character be more adventuresome and less stuffy than previous screen incarnations and mines on more obscure character traits.
Hopefully the new Holmes will be a little more hard-boiled like this guy. He’ll lean out the side of an American-large Caddy cruising around the Euro-small London streets and use an already-unconscious henchman to bash a fleeing henchmen breaking both their spines. Then he'll say something smarmy like "I'll pop your monacle! I daresay you're all mouth an' no trousers, you are!" Which is, if you are British, quite smarmy, indeed.
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