RDJ Sherlock Holmes 3 has a date!
 

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/action/sherlock_holmes/sherlock-holmes-3-officially-announced-for-christmas-2020-robert-downey-jr-jude-law-set-to-return-a160360

Christmas 2020! Hard to believe it'll have been nine years since A Game of Shadows... I'm just glad to have Downey and Law back for a third caper!

Finally this development hell project gets off the ground! I do wonder what the plot would be?

Now only if we can get National Treasure finally off the ground. Teasing it for 8 years and counting!

Sherlock doing The Last Bow.

I'm hoping for a mix of Hound of the Baskervilles and Adventure of the Empty House, personally... but that's a long shot.

I'd love it if they did Hound. My favorite Holmes story.

I was wondering if this was going to ever happen.

Every new Iron Man movie would send me into a grumbling fit...

"Oh, sure, RDJ has time to play Iron Man a seventh time in Spiderman Homecoming, but God forbid the man do a third Sherlock Holmes movie!!!" :tlol:

Has RDJ really been the hold up? I always assumed it was Guy Ritchie busy doing his uber budgeted stuff that keeps failing.

Guy Ritchie hasn't been doing that much since 2011, has he? Man from UNCLE and the Arthur movie? Only 2 movies since...

I'm pretty sure the holdup has been RDJ. The man's been in a Marvel movie almost every year...

Avengers 2012
Iron Man 3 2013
Avengers 2 2015
Civil War 2016
Spiderman 2017
Avengers 3 2018
Avengers 4 2019

Look at that. Literally a Marvel movie every year since, except for 2014. He's definitely been the holdup. :tlol:

Sherlock Holmes has a date? Who is she?

Okay, I couldn't resist. The thread title was just begging for that one. Had to get it out.....

Awesome. I love these movies.

I love the theme song, very medieval/periodic feel to it.

I've been waiting for this to happen for a while. Downey Jr. absolutely nails this role and his chemistry with Jude Law is spot-on.

Finally!
My favorite version of this SH version is that Watson is actually competent and cool character as opposed to usual deal, when he is either a furniture or an idiot.

Or Martin Freeman. :trazz:

I'll watch this but something about the first two Holmes movies just doesn't click with me. I think it's the camp factor, the Guy Ritchie-isms (which I love in all of his mobster movies) and this sort of... whimsy in them. I don't dislike them entirely and find them entertaining enough, but I can't help but sit there watching them constantly wishing this same cast exported into other, more serious and straight-up Holmes movies.

I think the day for straight-up period mysteries is pretty much over. :tgrumble:

Did anybody actually go see "Murder on the Orient Express?"

I did. I also did not know the twist. I put the 1976 film in the Netflix queue for after the remake was released to compare. People were upset it was not any different.

I also like RDJ's version better than Benedict Cumberbach's version.

Yeah, it made a lot of money and part 2 is already greenlit.

Hopefully this one will not reveal the villain at the beginning of the movie..or even the middle.

Here's what Jude Law had to say about the story.

https://ew.com/movies/2018/08/24/jud...s-3-storyline/

I really wish they did this one awhile back instead of that horrible 3rd Iron Man.

Dexter Fletcher (Rocketman) will be directing the film.

‘Rocketman’s’ Dexter Fletcher to Direct ‘Sherlock Holmes 3’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Dammit, get Ritchie back!

Yes where is he?

Wait, isn't he doing King Arthur parts 2-10 or something? ;)

No, really... wtf? Is there even a point to this without him? This is his thing, his bag. Plus, wasn't he part of the whole hold up to begin with?

Ah Dexter Fletcher, Spike from Press Gang and at one time a very crap host of Games Master:lol:

Uh oh.
I have a bad feeling about this.

The last thing he directed was Disney's Remake of Aladdin.

The movie has been put on the back burner for now.

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/sh...ert-downey-jr/

Obviously on hold.

What really worries me, however, is RDJ pushing for some sort of Sherlock Cinematic Universe.

“We think there’s an opportunity to build it out more,” Susan added. “Spin-off characters from a third movie, to see what’s going on in the television landscape, to see what Warner Media is starting to build out, things with HBO and HBO Max.”

“At this point, we really feel that there is not a mystery-verse built out anywhere, and Conan Doyle is the definitive voice in that arena, I think, to this day,” he said about the future of the franchise past Sherlock Holmes 3. “So to me, why do a third movie if you’re not going to be able to spin off into some real gems of diversity and other times and elements?”

Just do more Sherlock Holmes movies. Not everything has to be a cinematic universe. :trolleye:

Sooooo.... Like a public domain mystery stories universe, like Arsene Lupin and Sexton Blake? Or like a Arthur Conan Doyle universe with Professor Challenger and Brigadier Gerard?

I'd watch the hell out of the second concept, Sherlock Holmes having to solve mysteries while dealing with dinosaurs at the same time sounds both amazingly stupid and stupidly amazing!

Jesus. There are so many things wrong with this I have no idea where to begin. The lack of Ritchie is the obvious one... then the presence of this nonsense expanded universe. Also the fact that this should have come out like 5 years ago for anyone to care. I suspect the last two factors tie into each other.

Or bring Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century.

Oh for fvck's sake, I forgot Ritchie is no longer part of this. :tgrumble:

GAH. That's a huge red flag. :trolleye::trolleye: