Russell Crowe Won't Be Dr. Watson
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Well, darn! I no more than got to ponder this item from Australia's Herald Sun than it was debunked from England. The Sun was reporting that Russell Crowe was all set to play Dr. Watson in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, instantly making Watson ten times more interesting than he's ever been allowed to be onscreen.But just as all movie writers began pondering how incredibly brilliant it would be to see Crowe and Robert Downey Jr. pair up onscreen, perhaps as the Riggs and Murtaugh of Victorian London, it was dismissed entirely by none other than Guy Ritchie.
Ritchie was out doing red carpet duty for RocknRolla in London, when Empire asked him all about it. I'm kind of imagining a funny exercise in time difference here, where premiere reporters were being texted "Russ. C 2 be in Shlock Hlms?" from their Oz cousins just as Ritchie got out of his limo. Ritchie denied it all. "I don't have a Watson. Somebody just told me that I have Russell Crowe lined up but that's news to me. I suspect that hasn't happened and I'm still looking for my Watson." (I vote Paul Bettany. I guess he's becoming a bit of a smart sidekick cliche, but he would be really good.)
Filming is set to start in a month, so expect an Inglorious Bastards-like flurry of casting news. According to Susan Downey, producer of RocknRolla and owner of Robert, the story is all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's books, and yet none. "The world is within all the stories and it actually goes back to the books but the story is actually one that we made for the movie. What we can tell you is that he's a badass in this movie alright. That's what we're going back to, any Holmes fan that we've spoken to is getting really excited about this one."
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9-02-2008 @ 8:34PM
Sunny said...
Ritchie had mentioned wanting Crowe for the role during a recent TV interview in the UK. He's being coy and is trying to save face by acting as if he knew nothing about it all.
What nonsense Truth is, Crowe was never interested and didn't even consider doing the film.
Guy Ritchie is a hack director with no taste, no originality, little ability and his latest film is getting terrible reviews, just like his last two films. He should be glad Russell turned him down, as his intolerance for incompetency is well known.
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9-03-2008 @ 1:36AM
Mr.R said...
A.- I want Guy Ritchie off this project, he lacks the class needed to make a good Sherlock and B.- Once a good director is found, Ricky Gervais as Watson. Sorry, I just love the thought of him playing it.
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9-03-2008 @ 2:51PM
Mark Watson said...
Tim Hill is returning to Disney for the second and third times with an ABC Studios
original telefilm titled All I Have to Do is to Conduct an Orchesta and a 3-hour political thriller being set up at Touchstone titled Dark Horse. When will Fox release Mr. Hill's
second Alvin and the Chimpmunks film in 2010?
Please e-mail more details about Mr. Hill's previous animated
and live-action film and TV properties today; and convince me
to respond to my question shown above.
9-03-2008 @ 8:54PM
Mark Watson said...
Guess who'll returning to the big screen? It's Kevin James as
Paul Blurt: Mall Cop!
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