Seems the fasttrack to Sherlock Holmes 2 has left the adaptation of Cowboys and Aliens without Robert Downey Jr, and now it appears another casualty to another planned film will be suffering to make theSherlock sequel happen.
Guy Ritchie was getting ready to do Lobo when the plan to dive into Sherlock 2 so quickly may have him abandoning that project now too.
Joel Silver, who is serving as producer on both projects, says the studio is all about he and Ritchie working on a Sherlock Holmes sequel even if that means bailing on Lobo, but it’s not official yet. Silver elaborated:
I don’t think he’s going to do it now. I would guess a different director [will take on the project]. The studio wants us and Guy to focus on making another ‘Sherlock Holmes.’ So I think we’re going to be doing that.
So while other sites are already calling it done (and it likely is) it is just likely headed that way.
Frankly I am all for Ritchie doing another Sherlock. I enjoyed his version more than I thought I would. He shattered any preconceived notions of Sherlock as a stuffy quiet intellectual who solved crimes purely by observation and pondering. And yet still didn’t piss all over what Sherlock IS about. I liked that a great deal.
Now Lobo I could do without. He is nothing but a joke. No really.. thats what Lobo originally was – a joke. An over the top DC fabrication to poke fun at the Wolverine character from their rivals. Lobo has no depth to him and just has no appeal to me at all. Not even a little. Now if they give him depth and story – then I will reconsider. But based on the property as it is right now, I cannot motivate myself to be interested in the concept of a Lobo film.
Bring on Sherlock. Lobo is so secondary (or seventhdary…)
