In the category of “Damn she’s Pretty” we get our first look at Rachel McAdams in her role as Irene Adler, ripped out of the pages of a Sherlock Holmes novel and up on the big screen for the rest of us to enjoy.
The Bad and the Ugly says:
It took Guy Richie’s Sherlock Holmes movie coming to New York to finally get a look at Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler, a character who appeared in Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1891 A Scandal in Bohemia, though never again in the Sherlock mythos.
I am still on the fence about this movie but I am about what I am hearing.
The cast seems great. Jude Law as Watson rounding out Robert Downey Jr as Holmes across from Rachel McAdams. You would think you couldn’t lose with those guys. But then I thought George Clooney as Batman and Schwarzenegger as Freeze was a match too. And that was an epic fail.
I think my biggest concerns are how this “fresh new look” at the legendary figure has so much potential to rock, but also to fail. I am no purist, but there is no Professor Moriarty, and Holmes is being depicted as somewhat of a martial artist (traditionally he was a pugilist – not too big a stretch) and from the tidbits we see there will be a fair bit of action. Guy Ritchie is no slack and loves to offer up stuff just left of weird so I am not sold yet.
But as for the wonderful visage of fellow Canadian Rachel McAdams, you can see more images of her in various stages of walking down a flight of stairs here.
