Robert Downey Jr. in Sherlock Holmes - Confirmed
Robert Downey Jr. is set to star as the main character in Sherlock Holmes.
The film’s storyline is inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels and also the “Sherlock Holmes” comics, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Guy Ritchie will direct this Sherlock version for Warner Bros.
The concept sees Holmes as more adventurous and less stuffy than previous screen incarnations and mines more obscure character traits.
Ritchie’s Holmes will begin shooting in October and will have to contend with Columbia’s Sherlock Holmes, a comedy version set to star Sacha Baron Cohen as Holmes and Will Ferrell as Dr. Watson. Judd Apatow is producing the comedy.
Of course, Ritchie’s version will be more serious as they intend to draw from both the literary and comic versions of Holmes
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Sacha Baron Cohen filming ‘Bruno’
Sacha Baron Cohen, best known for his roles as Ali G and Borat, probably filming some footage for Bruno movie.
Where Borat critically examined the English-speaking world through the eyes of a mildly-offensive racial stereotype, Bruno does the same thing as a mildly-offensive racial and homosexual stereotype. Others stars of the film will be the 43 people who didn’t see Borat and won’t immediately start doing impressions at the sight of the lightly-disguised actor.
Defamer.com reports that an eyewitness has seen Sacha Baron Cohen filming some footage in Los Angeles for his movie ‘Bruno’
“I saw Sacha Baron Cohen doing filming as Bruno (gay Austrian) at On Your Marks Studio in Sherman Oaks on Feb. 21st. He was dressed in tight leather black pants with a bedazzeled g-string showing. his hair was frosted blond and straight.”
He added that the Borat depicter pretended to be an ad agent looking for a child to do commercial saying:
“He was interviewing parents with their children pretending to be an german / austrian ad agent looking for a child to do a car commercial. He asked questions like : are you willing to film your child with ants? bees or wasps? dogs? ect. very funny.”
Director: Dan Mazer
Writer: Sacha Baron Cohen
Release Date: 24 October 2008 (wide)
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The 10 Least Sexy Nude Scenes In Movie History
10. Angelina Jolie in “Beowulf”
Remember when all those crazy RESTRICTED “Beowulf” trailers of naked Angelina Jolie leaked to the internet, and just as everyone who never thought to type “Angelina Jolie Gia” into Google was preparing to go nuts, we soon learned that “Naked Angelina Jolie” actually meant “Naked Dragon Woman Thing From Rejected Pixar Film?” It’d be like if a movie came out billing “Pamela Anderson FINALLY gets naked!” and everyone dumb enough to be excited by it was treated to a CGI’d Pam Anderson-voiced unicorn character with rainbow-colored boobs. Which reminds me, I forgot to Netflix “Beowulf.”
9. Sharon Stone in “Basic Instinct 2″
Perhaps the most necessary sequel in cinematic history (besides “The Whole Ten Yards”), “Basic Instinct 2″ is a gripping, powerful tale about the inevitability of human aging and the overwhelming nature of denial. Sharon Stone is thoroughly convincing as the never-acclaimed lead actress who foolishly equates credibility with being naked a whole bunch of times, but her doctored, leathery flesh merely symbolizes the hopeless pursuit of eternal youth. Unfortunately, I feel like the critics didn’t fully appreciate this biting, cautionary tale.
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Sacha Baron Cohen Kills Borat
Well it looks like Borat 2 is never going to happen. In fact, Sacha Baron Cohen says he’s done with the character forever.
Cohen spoke the Daily Telegraph newspaper on the subject of wearing Borat’s mustache, and revealed that he’s calling it quits. Apparently his reasons have nothing to do with wanting to distance himself from his Borat persona, he just thinks too many people are in on the joke now. He says, “It is hard, and the problem with success, although it’s fantastic, is that every new person who sees the Borat movie is one less person I ‘get’ with Borat again, so it’s a kind of self-defeating form, really.”
The same seems to be true of his Ali G character, which he also plans to shed. Instead, Cohen is still at work on a new movie called Bruno, based on the gay fashionista character that got third billing on the HBO series were Ali G and Borat first got their starts.
I loved Borat, and while the prospect of a sequel has been tantalizing, Cohen is probably right. The fun of Borat is in foisting him on unsuspecting saps. The character is now too well known, making Borat’s job nearly impossible. It’s time to move on. Speaking of moving on, Sacha is currently in Sweeney Todd as a rival barber… and he nearly steals the movie right out from under Johnny Depp. He doesn’t need Borat.
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