"Sherlock Holmes" is the newest film adaptation of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional character of the same name, directed by Guy "Snatch" Ritchie, produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan Lin.
Screenplay is by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham and Simon Kinberg, based on a story by Lionel Wigram and Doyle's characters.
The film stars actors Robert Downey Jr. as 'Holmes' and Jude Law as 'Dr. John Watson'.
Canadian actress Rachel McAdams co-stars as 'Irene Adler', the only woman ever to have 'bested' Holmes, maintaining a tempestuous relationship with the detective.
The film is set in 1891 following Holmes and Watson, as they attempt to stop a conspiracy to destroy Britain, opening with Holmes apprehending cult leader 'Lord Blackwood' (Mark Strong), who promises he will return from the dead and exact his revenge as he is being led to the gallows.
"Sherlock Holmes" will be released worlwide December 25, 2009, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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