{"id":16900,"date":"2011-10-24T16:58:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T21:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=16900"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:55:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:55:13","slug":"drew-pearce-hired-to-script-sherlock-holmes-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/24\/drew-pearce-hired-to-script-sherlock-holmes-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew Pearce Hired To Script SHERLOCK HOLMES 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/SherlockHolmesHeader.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16901\" title=\"SherlockHolmesHeader\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/SherlockHolmesHeader.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/SherlockHolmesHeader.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/SherlockHolmesHeader-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Drew Pearce, creator of the British super hero comedy series <em>No Heroics<\/em>, has been hired by Warner Brothers to write the third film in the Robert Downey Jr. starring <strong>Sherlock Holmes<\/strong> franchise even though it is still two months before the second installment is released in theaters.<\/p>\n<p>Pearce is currently working on the screenplay for <strong>Iron Man 3<\/strong> and is also set to the DC Comics title <em>The Mighty<\/em> for Paramount.<\/p>\n<p>Warner Brothers had also hired screenwriters Michele and Kieran Mulroney for the studio\u2019s second <strong>Holmes<\/strong> film prior to the first one\u2019s December 2009 release.<\/p>\n<p>It seems as if for some of their franchises, studios are willing to get a jump on a follow-up installment by ordering a script before the current film is released. Disney had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/14\/one-half-of-pirates-scripting-duo-returning-for-fifth-installment\/\" target=\"_blank\">script<\/a> for a fifth <strong>Pirates<\/strong> film underway before <strong>On Stranger Tides<\/strong> was released this summer and Marvel Studios had retained the writers of <strong>Captain America: The First Avenger<\/strong> to start work on a sequel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/11\/captain-america-screenwriters-back-for-sequel\/\" target=\"_blank\">nearly five months<\/a> before that film hit theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Is hiring sequel writers ahead of a film\u2019s release becoming a new norm?<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/24\/drew-pearce-hired-to-script-sherlock-holmes-3\/\" title=\"Drew Pearce Hired To Script SHERLOCK HOLMES 3\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16901,"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":[3083,594,357,4431],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-drew-pearce","9":"tag-jude-law","10":"tag-robert-downey-jr","11":"tag-sherlock-holmes-3"},"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\/16900","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=16900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16900"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=16900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}