Ritchie Making Holmes For A Broader Audience
Written by Ian Cullen on November 11, 2009 – 11:00 am -
When it was announced that director Guy Ritchie was doing a Sherlock Holmes movie. It surprised many of his fans as well as mainstream movie goers because he’d become better known for his gangster movies, and had not really done much else.
Which as it turns out is the reason that Ritchie chose to do Sherlock Holmes, and he revealed as much in his recent interview for Entertainment Weekly, in which he expressed a desire to reach out to a bigger audience than the one he already has for movies such as: Snatch, Revolver and RocknRolla.
“I’ve spent too much time messing around in inaccessible, esoteric material,” he remarked. “I’ve never had my day in popular court. Sherlock Holmes will allow me to express my accessible side.”
The director went on to add that his earliest memories of Sherlock Holmes came from listening to audio tapes of the classic Conan Doyle stories.
“My first recollection of Holmesian narrative was at boarding school when I was very young,” he said. “They had these tapes of old stories that were a reward for not making too much noise in the dormitory.”
Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr as the famed Baker Street sleuth and Jude Law as his sidekick Watson, opens in cinemas on December 26.
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Tags: Guy Ritchie, Jude Law, Robert Downey Jr, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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