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A couple of items to note on Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, scheduled to arrive in theaters on Christmas Day. And what better way to celebrate the holidays? (Your other option that day, if you’re hoping to hasten death, is Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squekuel). Latino Review gets the bragging rights as the first site to pull out their camera phone and snag a shot of the Sherlock Holmes movie poster at ShoWest (what brave, intrepid men, who will sacrifice at nothing!). And just look at it. When your movie poster features Robert Downey, Jr., I daresay it’d be hard to mess it up (which is not to say it can’t be done):


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In a related note, Rachel McAdams revealed to SciFi Wire that Sherlock Holmes may also be something of an early 20th century-set bromance, which is to say that all the sexual tension may exists between the two male leads, RDJ and Jude Law:

It’s in true Guy Ritchie fashion, too. It’s lots of fighting and explosions, but, I think, from what I’ve seen, obviously Robert Downey Jr. is an amazing actor, and so is Jude Law. They make a wonderful duo. I think some people are probably skeptical. Everybody has their preconceived notions about Watson in particular. Everyone’s like, “Watson’s supposed to be like this.” Anyway, I just think Jude is a perfect Watson, oddly enough, and they’re really perfect together. That’s kind of the love story, actually. I play supposedly Sherlock’s love interest, but it’s really Watson.

And now I officially feel like I’m one rawrrrr short of replacing Billy Bush.


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Comments

mmmm...RDJ.

Posted by: Marra at March 29, 2009 8:42 PM

Daaaaaaaamn.

Need this movie, now.

Posted by: Snath at March 29, 2009 9:23 PM

Jude Law best not be getting between me and my RDJ. I don't take my man-crushes lightly.

Posted by: reilly at March 29, 2009 9:26 PM

The Squekuel? Who gets the job of picking chipmunk entrails out of the Murdertank's treads?

Posted by: MrCresosote at March 29, 2009 9:46 PM

Damn! That looks awesome. AWESOME.

Posted by: figgy at March 29, 2009 10:18 PM

The poster is so awesome it almost makes me forget 'Squekel'.

ARGH. I REMEMBERED. NOW I WANT TO SHOOT SOMEONE IN THE FACE AGAIN! ARGH!

Oooh, RDJ....ooh...

My brain can't take this. Argh.

Posted by: figgy at March 29, 2009 10:20 PM

Your Heart and Souls link is broken.

This RDJ poster is off the chain. If the movie is half this bad-ass there will be a whole generation of steampunk wannabes doing the look.

Not that this is a bad thing.

Posted by: Meander at March 29, 2009 10:21 PM

I want that poster inside me.

Posted by: MG at March 29, 2009 10:29 PM

Don't know why, but if you refresh the page the image appears.

Posted by: Jay at March 29, 2009 10:52 PM

Downey doesn't soften.

He arouses.

It's going to be a good week.

Posted by: BlueBombardier at March 29, 2009 11:17 PM

The Squekuel? Who gets the job of picking chipmunk entrails out of the Murdertank's treads?

Jason Lee, for agreeing to be in those pictures after Kevin Smith gave him a career in the first place. (Sadder still, Alvin and the Chipmunks made more than all of Smiths movies combined.)

Posted by: George at March 29, 2009 11:29 PM

rdj AND jude law?

Finally all those ritual sacrifices pay off.

Posted by: twig at March 29, 2009 11:45 PM

How can you post the weekend box office before the weekend's over? I don't mean you, D*st*n, I mean Hwood? Isn't that like posting as fact the estimated final score of a football game in the third quarter?

Posted by: bucdaddy at March 30, 2009 12:30 AM

Aw hell, wrong thread for that, was supposed to go in the box office thread. Sorry, sorry.

Posted by: bucdaddy at March 30, 2009 12:31 AM

Great. Now I'm oddly intrigued by this bizarre poster for Heart & Souls.

Proposed oddball Tom Sizemore double-feature: Heart & Souls followed by Strange Days. (They're both part of his mid-90s oeuvre?)

Posted by: Clarence Boddicker at March 30, 2009 12:35 AM

I propose an immediate and permanent moratorium on the word "bromance". Thank you.

Posted by: TylerDFC at March 30, 2009 7:03 AM

All I know is, it better have Ritchie's signature thugs and shady characters. That and an eclectic soundtrack.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at March 30, 2009 7:04 AM

RDJ and Jude Law dude love? Well ok, but RDJ has to be the top.

Posted by: admin at March 30, 2009 7:37 AM

I.Want. NOW!!!!!!

Posted by: dammitjanet at March 30, 2009 8:46 AM

Amazing how RDJ can make Will Smith's Wild, Wild West look cool.

Oh, RDJ... How we want thee.

Posted by: Sofía at March 30, 2009 9:42 AM

I want that poster inside me.

I think the resulting papercut would be a bit ouchy.

Posted by: mswas at March 30, 2009 9:54 AM

I'm not so sure. My idea of Holmes was always a detached, professorial type. The kind of man who'd forget to eat for two days because he was working. The smartest guy in the room, but never the coolest guy in the room. RDJ has always struck me as being not only the coolest guy in the room, but also that he knew he was the coolest guy in the room and expected everyone else to behave accordingly. And wasn't Watson older or at least Holmes' contemporary? Jude Law seems more like a teenage sidekick than a military veteran who served in wartime.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at March 30, 2009 9:56 AM

I'm already a steampunk wannabe (alas, I cannot afford it--do you know how much proper corsetry costs?).

I expect this movie will only make that worse.

And I'll add my Mmmmmms to the chorus of Paheebans drooling over RDJ. Mmm, indeed.

Posted by: lizzieborden at March 30, 2009 10:09 AM

That photo... RDJ... visible tongue... afdksjknsjdf!!

Jeez, there go my plans to be productive before afternoon classes.

Posted by: Smithy at March 30, 2009 1:32 PM

I am beyond psyched for this... the sheer badassery is mind-boggling, as is the fact that they're actually going to address the whole Victorian bromance merely adds to it.

lizzieborden, I hear you on the corsetry woes. I finally found one last summer that didn't break the bank, but it just fueled the fire. I need to win the lottery or rob a bank or something.

Posted by: That Girl at March 30, 2009 1:47 PM

Mmmmm. More Downey, any day, please.

I will confess to liking "Heart and Souls" quite a bit. It's ridiculously sentimental, but RDJ is so good as he inhabits (and therefore imitates) all the other actors. And he sells the sentiment, as well -- tearing up and making me do the same. Damn him.

Posted by: Louise at March 30, 2009 5:17 PM

Hmmm..even though Jude Law is a lot sketchy...I'd still attempt a full sideways dive to get in-between that friendship, if you know what I mean. And I think you do.

Posted by: replica at March 30, 2009 6:46 PM

yumm. can't wait!

Posted by: caseyg at March 31, 2009 1:39 PM