But several other reasons for delays sprung up.Īppreciating that the hugely popular and successful Sherlock television series came along in 2010 and itself took up some of 221b Baker Street’s oxygen, there still seemed little reason the two shouldn’t co-exist. Suddenly, a film grossing half a billion dollars didn’t look quite as impressive, bizarrely. Drew Pearce had been hired to pen a script, with both Downey Jr and Law oftentimes expressing interest in returning to the franchise.īut what this began was a decade-and-change list of false starts, set against a changing ecosystem of film and TV. In fact, even before A Game Of Shadows landed in cinemas, Warner Bros was moving towards at the least completing a trilogy. Directed by Guy Ritchie, and reuniting Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, it laid a very clear commercial and critical path to a third film. It was on December 16 th 2011 that Warner Bros released the sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows into worldwide cinemas, returning a handsome profit for Warner Bros and Village Roadshow Pictures (with over half a billion dollars banked) by the time its run was complete. Try three issues of Film Stories magazine – for just £1: right here!
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