British horror director Neil Marshall, whose last movie “Descent” was hailed as one of the best horror movies to come out in, well, decades, and who is working on the too-cool sounding “Doomsday”, is now slated by Warner Brothers to direct their big-screen “reimagining” of venerable English detective Sherlock Holmes from a script by Michael Johnson. The movie will not be based on the traditional Holmes that we know and (maybe) loved, but rather a version of Holmes as chronicled in the upcoming comic book “Sherlock Holmes” by Lionel Wigram, who will produce the movie. In Wigram’s version, Holmes sheds his Victorian stuffiness for high adventure, including bare-knuckle boxing and swordfighting as tools to solving crimes.
And before you start bitching about “the Yanks” ruining the British character, just know this: All three men involved in the creation of the film — Marshall, Johnson, and Wigram — are all Brits, so if you want to blame anyone for “ruining” Holmes, leave the Americans out of it! (via Variety)
“Bare knuckle boxing? Oh dear.”
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