By Earlier this week came the news that filmmaker Guy Ritchie and actor Hero Fiennes Tiffin were planning a “Young Sherlock Holmes” series with a straight-to-series order handed out at Amazon Prime Video.
Ritchie will direct and executive produce the series, hardly his first foray into the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s world as he directed Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in two successful “Sherlock Holmes” films over a decade ago for Warner Bros. Pictures.
There has long been talk of a third film in that series but nothing has ever really come of it despite some development having taken place. The recent news has led to concern the film has been abandoned.
Now, Robert Downey Jr.’s wife and long-time producing partner Susan Downey tells Screen Rant that the proposed film is still “very much alive’ and it’s all about figuring out the right approach.
Out promoting the final season of “Sweet Tooth,” Downey was asked to offer an update on the film’s progress. She says:
“I mean, look, no, there’s no update, other than it’s still very much alive in our hearts. Every day we talk about, ‘What is the best next version of that?’ Because anytime I see Robert and Jude together, which fortunately, I do get to see a few times a year, we hang out, and I’m just like, ‘Can I get these guys back on screen together?’, it’s magic. There needs to be a really strong reason, it needs to be a great story, and we do have some things in the works.”
Both films in the series so far were made for relatively cost effective budgets around the $100 million mark with both earning around $520-540 million each at the global box-office.
Downey Jr. is coming off his Oscar-winning turn in “Oppenheimer” and acclaimed work in HBO’s “The Sympathizer” series. He’ll be taking to the stage this Fall, making his Broadway debut in the stage play “McNeal”.
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