10 Upcoming Movie Roles That Are Completely Miscast

10. Sherlock Holmes/John Watson (Will Ferrell/John C. Reilly) - Holmes And Watson

Both Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly have plenty of comedic hits and misses between them, so it’s normal to feel mildly apprehensive when approaching a funny movie featuring either one of them.

Their comedy typically revolves around taking everyday situations and heightening them to a ridiculous degree - Daddy’s Home’s stepfather/stepchild relationship, Step Brothers’ arrested development - but Holmes and Watson isn’t an everyday scenario.

The two title characters are brilliant men with bucketloads of intuition and intellect, and to turn them into a pair of idiots just so Ferrell and Reilly can fill their shoes just feels wrong.

Holmes and Watson could easily be a drama with strong comedic elements - the BBC show does that superbly - but a silly Will Ferrell comedy with fart jokes and other crude gags? Ferrell’s movies can be funny, but here, he and Reilly are going to forcefully turn the title characters into a pair of bumbling idiots, and that’s just not what they should be.

Authored by Danny Meegan

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for almost nine years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. He has been writing and video editing for 10+ years, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers and uploading them to YouTube (they're admittedly a bit rusty by today's standards). If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order or to tell you about the making of 1988's Remembrance of the Daleks, Danny is the person to ask.

Posted On: 17th Oct 2017

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