{"id":5604,"date":"2009-09-21T22:57:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T03:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=5604"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:44:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:44:38","slug":"holmes-sequel-in-development-pitt-as-moriarty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/21\/holmes-sequel-in-development-pitt-as-moriarty\/","title":{"rendered":"HOLMES Sequel In Development, Pitt As Moriarty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/SherlockHolmes1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5606\" title=\"SherlockHolmes1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/SherlockHolmes1-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"SherlockHolmes1\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a>Franchises have become such an important part of a studio&#8217;s business model that second installments are starting to be prepared even before an initial entry in a potential series has been seen by the public. So it should come as no surprise that Warner Brothers are already developing a sequel to their yet to be released adventure <strong>Sherlock Holmes<\/strong>, featuring Robert Downey, Jr. as Arthur Conan Doyle&#8217;s classic sleuth and Jude Law as Holmes&#8217; faithful assistant Dr. Watson.<\/p>\n<p>The <em><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150402044603\/http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/blogs\/risky-business\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em> states that the studio is getting ready to hire scripters Kieran and Michele Mulroney, who wrote the abandoned <strong>Justice League: Mortal<\/strong> superhero film for the studio, to develop a screenplay for a sequel. Surprisingly, though, the Mulroneys were not involved at all with the original film, which had run through the typewriters of Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham and Wigram and Simon Kinberg.<\/p>\n<p>Even more surprising is the news that the producers have been talking with Brad Pitt to appear in the second film as Holmes&#8217; arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty.There has already been some buzz that Moriarty makes an appearance in the first film, but a quick read of the script reveals that while he does show up, he remains in the shadows, never clearly seen.<\/p>\n<p>With franchises for <strong>Holmes<\/strong>, <strong>Iron Man<\/strong> and a possible third one growing out of his upcoming <strong>Cowboys &amp; Aliens<\/strong>, it looks as if Downey could be setting himself up with enough guaranteed work for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Franchises have become such an important part of a studio&#8217;s business model that second installments are starting to be prepared even before an initial entry in a potential series has been seen by the public. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/21\/holmes-sequel-in-development-pitt-as-moriarty\/\" title=\"HOLMES Sequel In Development, Pitt As Moriarty\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5606,"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":[213,21,3,22,594,357,24,658],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brad-pitt","9":"tag-casting","10":"tag-coming-soon","11":"tag-in-development","12":"tag-jude-law","13":"tag-robert-downey-jr","14":"tag-sequel","15":"tag-sherlock-holmes"},"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\/5604","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=5604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5604"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}