And the cast list for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes keeps getting…odd. Rachel McAdams, who quickly went from looking like a next big thing to second in the race against Elizabeth Banks, has been cast as Irene Adler. Not so much a romantic foil for Holmes as a cunning intellectual one, the retired opera prima donna Adler appeared in one story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal In Bohemia, where she actually manages to elude Holmes and, in doing so, earn his greatest respect.
Though she appears only in that one tale, Adler is mentioned in several others, and the character is being left open with the option to return in further Holmes flicks. THR actually calls the character an ‘enigmatic love interest’, but here’s hoping that she and Holmes actually keep their distance from one another. I’d actually love it, in a weird way, if Adler could be built up into a larger presence. Could be a perverse bit of fun in making Holmes think she and Moriarty are somehow connected.
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They should expand the SNL skit where Jeremy Irons, as Holmes, ruins a surprise party by deducing it all before hand.
"the retired opera prima donna". Yes, this character descriptions screams to be played by some lightweight 20-something. Nice to see Richie learning the Hollywood ropes of recasting characters to avoid using appropriately aged women.
Oh and thanks for bringing these back, Nick.
The character is described in the original story as being American, 30, and "the daintest thing under a bonnet on this planet." McAdams is actually pretty good casting.
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I like this cast, not sure what's so odd about it. They all seem pretty spot on actually.
Odd how? Oh, I briefly forgot that every article on Chud has to have some sort of negative spin on it no matter what.
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