Sherlock Holmes Remake Updates.. Statham as Dr Watson?

We had a chance to catchup with Robert Downey Jr who gave us the latest on the new Sherlock Holmes remake but the more interesting item that came up was Jason Statham telling us he would be interested in working on the project as well. He joked about getting a shot at playing Dr.Watson. Could you imagine ? That would definitely be an interesting role for Jason who mentioned it during our interview with him for Death Race. Robert gave us the low down on what the film is about;

It’s set in 1891. The original dossier of Sherlock Holmes, in additional to everything we know, was also that he was a bare knuckle boxer and a master of Baritsu which is a very nebulous martial art which I love and so we’re going to punch up what was missing from all the Sherlock Holmes we’d seen which is the fact there were these huge chase and action sequences that occurred and were probably just a little too expensive to do with Basil Rathbone for TV.

So we’re going to really bring up the scale of it and make it fun and accessible. I’ve seen a lot of kid-friendly movies and a lot of super dark movies all come out and do well this summer and I think we need less darkness and more entertainment. So I’m hoping we can do a very entertaining and accessible movie.

We will share more Sherlock updates as we get them. Stay tuned.