Law in talks to play Watson to Downey Jr's Holmes
Jude Law 'in negotiations' to play Doctor Watson for Guy Ritchie
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Friday, 19, Sep 2008 08:51
Jude Law is in negotiations to play Doctor Watson in Guy Ritchie's upcoming Sherlock Holmes adaptation, reports claim.
Robert Downey Jr, whose new film Tropic Thunder is released in the UK today (September 19th), has also been confirmed for the lead role for the detective drama.
Snatch director Ritchie was contracted by Warner Bros Studios in June to helm a film based on an as-yet-unpublished graphic novel take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous creation.
And with filming due to start in London next month, the studio - and production partner Village Roadshow Pictures - is concluding talks with Law to star as the detective's sidekick, according to Variety.
Speaking at the premiere of his new film RocknRolla earlier this month, Ritchie had denied reports that Russell Crowe was being lined up as a potential Watson.
"I'm still looking for my Watson," he told Empire magazine.
The search seems to have ended with The Talented Mr Ripley star Law, who recently completed production on Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes will the "bad-ass" equivalent to the recently-announced spoof version - starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell - Downey Jr has claimed.
"In the original stories of Sherlock Holmes, he's kind of a bad-ass and a bare-knuckle boxer and studies the rare, fictional martial art of baritsu," the Oscar-nominated actor told the Sun newspaper.
"If you look baritsu up, they can't even really tell you what it is, so it gives us a lot of leeway."