{"id":704,"date":"2008-07-02T09:37:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T13:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=704"},"modified":"2018-12-08T14:50:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T19:50:39","slug":"a-second-sherlock-holmes-project-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/02\/a-second-sherlock-holmes-project-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"A Second Sherlock Holmes Project On The Way?"},"content":{"rendered":"

And the Judd Apatow comedy juggernaut keeps rolling along. This time, Apatow will be producing a comedic take on the classic English detective Sherlock Holmes, with Borat<\/strong>\u00a0star Sacha Baron Cohen as Holmes and Will Farrell as sidekick Watson.<\/p>\n

This makes the second Holmes project currently in development. Director Guy Ritchie is currently developing his own<\/a>, presumably more serious in tone, film based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic, and now public domain, character. Robert Downey Jr. is reportedly<\/a> interested in appearing in Ritchie’s version.<\/p>\n

A comedic version of Holmes has been done before in 1988’s Without A Clue<\/strong>, which reversed the roles of Holmes and Watson, making Watson (Ben Kingsley) the brilliant detective who gave credit to a bumbling Holmes (Michael Caine). There’s no word yet as to what comedy hook that screenwriter Etan Cohen is going to hang the film on.<\/p>\n

Via Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And the Judd Apatow comedy juggernaut keeps rolling along. This time, Apatow will be producing a comedic take on the classic English detective Sherlock Holmes, with Borat\u00a0star Sacha Baron Cohen as Holmes and Will Farrell [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,"_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":[3],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-coming-soon"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t