{"id":10034,"date":"2010-09-26T21:40:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T02:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=10034"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:35:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:35:27","slug":"stephen-fry-playing-mycroft-in-sherlock-holmes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/26\/stephen-fry-playing-mycroft-in-sherlock-holmes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Fry Playing Mycroft in SHERLOCK HOLMES 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/StephenFry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10036\" title=\"StephenFry\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/StephenFry-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a>British actor Stephen Fry announced over the weekend on BBC radio that he will be playing Sherlock Holmes&#8217; brother Mycroft in the upcoming sequel to director Guy Ritchie&#8217;s 2009 hit <strong>Sherlock Holmes<\/strong>. For those unfamiliar with Arthur Conan Doyle&#8217;s original Holmes stories, Mycroft was Sherlock&#8217;s smarter brother, though he never had the ambition to fully use that intellect. He also has a vague but powerful connection to the British government.<\/p>\n<p>While I think the casting of the erudite Fry is a pretty good call, I&#8217;m not sure that I see a family resemblance between him and Robert Downey Jr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sherlock Holmes 2<\/strong> starts shooting later this year for a December 2011 release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">British actor Stephen Fry announced over the weekend on BBC radio that he will be playing Sherlock Holmes&#8217; brother Mycroft in the upcoming sequel to director Guy Ritchie&#8217;s 2009 hit Sherlock Holmes. For those unfamiliar <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/26\/stephen-fry-playing-mycroft-in-sherlock-holmes-2\/\" title=\"Stephen Fry Playing Mycroft in SHERLOCK HOLMES 2\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[659,357,3152,3153],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-guy-ritchie","8":"tag-robert-downey-jr","9":"tag-sherlock-holmes-2","10":"tag-stephen-fry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10034"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=10034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}