USA Today has released some new photos from Guy Ritchie‘s Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, and Rachel McAdams. The article states that the trailer will premiere before Terminator Salvation on May 21st. Check out the photos and some details thanks to/Film after the jump.
The image that convinced studio executives to go in a new direction with the character depicted Holmes as “scruffy and stubbly, with a whip in one hand and a sword in the other.” This description is akin to Indiana Jones, producer Lionel Wigram compares the film to James Bond or Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The film is also more of a buddy story. Law compares the Holmes / Watson relationship to “something as eccentric as The Odd Couple to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Withnail and I and Laurel and Hardy.”
Mark Strong plays the film’s villain Lord Blackwood, an industrialist based on real-life occultist Aleister Crowley, who “holds sway over a cult of dark-arts practitioners and claims to possess supernatural powers, is linked to a series of murders.” Check out the first look at Strong below.
The film is set for a Christmas 2009 release.
What do you think of the new photos? Looking forward to Sherlock Holmes?