Robert Downey Jr. expects to strengthen his reign as current king atop the action/fantasy films mountain in the lead role of the Guy Ritchie directed "Sherlock Holmes."
Props to Entertainment Tonight for having this video interview with Downey and making it embed-ready for those of us who will appreciate him discussing 'Holmes.' Sorry, it auto plays so just click the picture below.
The film will also star Rachel McAdams ("Red Eye") as a super-intelligent master villain and is planned to drop in 2010. I believe we can expect "Ironman 2" around that time as well.
All this goodness is after the actor publicly looked "The Dark Knight" in the eye and fearlessly told DC Comics what he thought about the Batman film. That took some guts because now Downey can also expect to forgo that role in the "Justice League" movie he may have wanted. (Yeah, right.)
But that's not the real evidence of Downey's bravery - He's got guts for taking on this picture under the directorial eye of Guy Ritchie.
Ritchie is the guy fans of slick visual film making love to hate and hate to
love. You may not want to say you enjoyed "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" or "Snatch" but you did. His miscues could be mentioned but he still has some style. Check the trailer to "Rocknrolla" and the interview with Downey below
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