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Reinventions
I haven't horrified you with entertainment news in a while. So here you go:
The latest franchise to get reimagined: Sherlock Holmes
"Sherlock Holmes" Gets Reinvented: Warner Bros. Pictures and producer Lionel Wigram will adapt Wigram's upcoming comicbook "Sherlock Holmes" for the bigscreen.
The aim, according to Variety, is to reinvent Arthur Conan Doyle's sleuth and Dr. Watson in the same edgy way that Batman and Bond have been in the past two years.
Michael Johnson is penning the script for the project, expected to be the next directing project of "The Descent" helmer Neil Marshall who is currently filming "Doomsday" for Rogue Pictures.
Hmm. Well... I like Neil Marshall's direction, so that would be cool... But is "Sherlock Holmes" in need of "reinvention"? The nice thing about both Casino Royale and Batman Begins is that both movies went back to the basics, stripping away a lot of the Hollywood FX, gagetry and merchandising tie-ins that had transformed those franchises into bloated monstrosities.
But Sherlock Holmes... I don't think Holmes adapatations have suffered as much as the Bond+Batman films have. There hasn't been as much deviation from the original.
Then again, this is a comic book adaptation, not *actually* a reinvention per se.
The storyline is being kept under wraps, no word on if it will use some of Doyle's mysteries but Wigram does plan to showcase some of Holmes lesser known traits including sword fighting and bare knuckle boxing.
See, *that* sounds like deviation to me. Holmes solves mysteries through deduction, not parkour. Sure, he can box, but action-heroics is not what the character is famous for.
*Sigh*
Well... maybe the comic book will be good.
Reinvention #2:
Veronica Mars dead? Alive?
I hope the FBI proposition gets greenlit. From what I've heard about VM, it's a good show suffering from the dreaded "transition to college" plotline. (See also: Buffy S4, every other high-school show that tried to follow characters into university). I think jumping ahead a few years and reinventing the show would be a good move.
More news:
Following the trend set by The Queen -
Margaret Thatcher gets a movie! So does Queen V!
And for you Supernatural fans out there: the Weekly World News has an issue out featuring an interview with the Winchesters. I kid you not. Here's part of the online version (I like the print version more, myself.)
The latest franchise to get reimagined: Sherlock Holmes
"Sherlock Holmes" Gets Reinvented: Warner Bros. Pictures and producer Lionel Wigram will adapt Wigram's upcoming comicbook "Sherlock Holmes" for the bigscreen.
The aim, according to Variety, is to reinvent Arthur Conan Doyle's sleuth and Dr. Watson in the same edgy way that Batman and Bond have been in the past two years.
Michael Johnson is penning the script for the project, expected to be the next directing project of "The Descent" helmer Neil Marshall who is currently filming "Doomsday" for Rogue Pictures.
Hmm. Well... I like Neil Marshall's direction, so that would be cool... But is "Sherlock Holmes" in need of "reinvention"? The nice thing about both Casino Royale and Batman Begins is that both movies went back to the basics, stripping away a lot of the Hollywood FX, gagetry and merchandising tie-ins that had transformed those franchises into bloated monstrosities.
But Sherlock Holmes... I don't think Holmes adapatations have suffered as much as the Bond+Batman films have. There hasn't been as much deviation from the original.
Then again, this is a comic book adaptation, not *actually* a reinvention per se.
The storyline is being kept under wraps, no word on if it will use some of Doyle's mysteries but Wigram does plan to showcase some of Holmes lesser known traits including sword fighting and bare knuckle boxing.
See, *that* sounds like deviation to me. Holmes solves mysteries through deduction, not parkour. Sure, he can box, but action-heroics is not what the character is famous for.
*Sigh*
Well... maybe the comic book will be good.
Reinvention #2:
Veronica Mars dead? Alive?
I hope the FBI proposition gets greenlit. From what I've heard about VM, it's a good show suffering from the dreaded "transition to college" plotline. (See also: Buffy S4, every other high-school show that tried to follow characters into university). I think jumping ahead a few years and reinventing the show would be a good move.
More news:
Following the trend set by The Queen -
Margaret Thatcher gets a movie! So does Queen V!
And for you Supernatural fans out there: the Weekly World News has an issue out featuring an interview with the Winchesters. I kid you not. Here's part of the online version (I like the print version more, myself.)
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However, owing to the unfortunate interpretation of Basil Rathbone, the real Sherlock Holmes of Arthur Conan Doyle has mostly been forgotten in American culture.
...didn't that series merely add a deerstalker hat and "Elementary Dear Watson"? I haven't seen them since I was a kid, so I can't remember...
I doubt, at any rate, that the Holmes series has had to put up with nippled body suits, empty-headed nuclear physicists, invisible cars and spandex. If it has, I clearly need to add some DVDs to my Netflix Queue...
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However, what it also added was something that, ironically, it took away. What made Brett's rendition so good was that he embodied not just the strengths of Sherlock Holmes, but also the weaknesses.
Sherlock Holmes isn't just some normal person who happens to be a deductive genius... He's a very flawed man.
Most interpretations of Holmes have excluded his flaws to such an extent that if you ask an American to tell you about Sherlock Holmes, they'll think he's some kind of superman at solving crime. Like everything about him is perfect. They don't know that he used drugs, and that he was almost a manic depressive.
Brett really captured the total essence of Holmes, both in his highs and in his lows. The lows are something which is portrayed in the novels fairly prominantly, but which is excluded from nearly every representation of him in the media.
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