In an odd rehash of the whole Capote-dueling thing that we saw in ‘05 and ‘06, we have two Sherlock Holmes movies in the works. One’s going the comedy route with Sacha Baron Cohen. Yawn to that, I say.
But the other one will have Robert Downey, Jr. as Sherlock and Rachel McAdams as a love interest.
I don’t think they could have two more attractive people together. How exciting is this? McAdams disappeared for a while after her Mean Girls, The Notebook, Wedding Crashers, Red Eye wave of successes, and she’s getting good-to-great reviews for The Lucky Ones and has The Time-Traveler’s Wife coming up, which I’m hopeful for.
Then there’s State of Play, coming next April. The miniseries that it’s based on from BBC is brilliant, and the cast of the film remake is to die for: Russell Crowe, Helen Mirren, Jason Bateman, Robin Wright Penn, Jeff Daniels, Ben Affleck, and, of course, McAdams.
Looks like she’s gonna be having a good next couple of years. I wish she’d work more, ’cause she really has the potential to be a bigger star than she is. She’s consistently solid in everything she’s done so far, so… Well, I’m excited for her getting paired with RDJ. Let’s hope the movie doesn’t suck, ‘kay?
