{"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":"<p>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 <strong>Borat<\/strong>\u00a0star Sacha Baron Cohen as Holmes and Will Farrell as sidekick Watson.<\/p>\n<p>This makes the second Holmes project currently in development. Director Guy Ritchie is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/04\/sherlock-holmes-to-be-reimagined-by-guy-ritchie\/\" target=\"_self\">currently developing his own<\/a>, presumably more serious in tone, film based on Arthur Conan Doyle&#8217;s classic, and now public domain, character. Robert Downey Jr. is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/13\/robert-downey-jr-as-sherlock-holmes\/\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly<\/a> interested in appearing in Ritchie&#8217;s version.<\/p>\n<p>A comedic version of Holmes has been done before in 1988&#8217;s <strong>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&#8217;s no word yet as to what comedy hook that screenwriter Etan Cohen is going to hang the film on.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121119041831\/http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117988387?refCatId=13\" target=\"_self\">Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">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 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/02\/a-second-sherlock-holmes-project-on-the-way\/\" title=\"A Second Sherlock Holmes Project On The Way?\">[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":[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":[],"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\/704","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=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}