Guy Ritchie forgets LOBO to take on SHERLOCK HOLMES' second case!!!

by Matt Holmes

Guy Ritchie won himself back in the hearts and minds of the mainstream Joe Popcorn audience with the entertaining blockbuster Sherlock Holmes and you won't be surprised to hear that he is moving straight onto a sequel. A fast track Holmes 2 seemed obvious when Robert Downey Jr left Jon Favreau's Cowboys and Aliens that was to shoot this summer to leave his schedule open for a reprisal of his Golden Globe winning super-sleuth, and I would wager a late 2011 or early summer 2012 release could be in the offing. Warner Bros. producer Joel Silver tells The L.A. Times that the casualty of making Sherlock Holmes 2 so fast is Guy Ritchie's comic book adaptation of Lobo...

"I don't think he's going to do it now. The studio wants us and Guy to focus on making another 'Sherlock Holmes.... So we're trying to see if we can do something quickly with another 'Sherlock Holmes' movie. We have some ideas and some good story points."
Silver said his guess was that Lobo would get a "different director" and it's still being developed despite this latest development. As for who would play Moriarty - clearly positioned as the villain threat for a sequel, he confirmed the Brad Pitt rumour but hinted that things may have changed since they first spoke about him playing the role.

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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.