Guy Ritchie’s comedic action film Sherlock Holmes may have divided critics but its worldwide box office success of $470 million has Warner Brothers scrambling for a sequel. It seemed inevitable that it would happen but in an interview with ComingSoon, Jude Law has all but confirmed the green light on Sherlock Holmes 2:
“I think we are probably going to make another one. I haven’t been given the absolute… it’s not like next week but I think it’s sometime this year is what I get.”
Sherlock Holmes was adapted from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 19th Century detective novels. He wrote fifteen in the Holmes series, giving Warner Brothers ample sources for more than just one sequel should Sherlock Holmes 2 repeat its predecessors success. Law played the part of Sherlock Holmes’ (Robert Downey Jr.) sidekick Dr. Watson for which he is excited to reprise:
“Because of our enthusiasm for the project, once we knew it was doing well financially, we all started throwing in our ideas of where it could go and what should happen next. Mine of course involved Sherlock Holmes being locked in a box and Dr. Watson…”
Law’s name has also been mentioned recently as part of the cast of Steven Soderbergh’s virus outbreak thriller Contagion. Starring alongside him are Matt Damon, Kate Winslet and Marion Cotillard. In the same interview he describes the premise of the film and his role as an online blogger:
“‘Contagion’ is not until the end of the year and I’m one of a large number of people in a big ensemble, so I’m doing like 10 days on that, in San Francisco, I think. Well, the subject matter is really interesting, it’s very current. It’s about a contagious disease spreading across the world and how it affects different elements. Be it the public, the medical services, the emergency services, politicians. I play someone online, a blogger, who is kind of a fearmonger. And I just like the part, I really like the part, and I just love Steven Soderbergh films. I think he’s a great talent.” (ComingSoon)
Law put in a likable, decent performance in Sherlock Holmes and if Downey Jr. reprises his role the film will benefit again from their great onscreen chemistry. Hopefully, however, something is done to create a better screenplay as the first seemed to suffer from messy exposition that particularly ruins the ending of the film.
Would you go to see Sherlock Holmes 2 or Contagion?