Finally some casting call from the upcoming Sherlock Holmes sequel!
We already know that Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law are back as Holmes and Watson, with Rachel McAdams who will reprise her role as Irene Adler.
Then we learned that Noomi Rapace will make her English-language debut as the sequel's female lead, rumored to be a French Gypsy.
And now, Stephen Fry has revealed that he will play Mycroft Holmes.
In an interview with BBC, Fry said:
“I'm playing Mycroft in the sequel to the Sherlock Holmes film Guy Ritchie directed with Robert Downey Jr., and that sort of part is fun, but just once in a while to play a genuine all round sort of lead figure with complexity and tragedy and wit and all the sort of things that Oscar Wilde had was a once in a lifeftime thrill.”
Fry's character is described as “possessing deductive powers exceeding even those of his younger brother, Mycroft is nonetheless incapable of performing detective work similar to that of Sherlock as he is unwilling to put in the physical effort necessary to bring cases to their conclusions.”
On the other hand, Sherlock describes his brother in “The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter”: “He has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.
Again and again I have taken a problem to him, and have received an explanation which has afterwards proved to be the correct one. And yet he was absolutely incapable of working out the practical points.”
Sherlock Holmes 2 comes to theaters on December 16, 2011.
