Sherlock Holmes 3 depends on Robert Downey Jr., says director Guy Ritchie

• Sherlock Holmes 3 production will depend on Robert Downey Jr.
• The last movie was released a decade ago.
• The future of the film is still uncertain.

The writer-director Guy Ritchie is renowned for adding his own aesthetic and directing flair to each movie he works on. His 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie and 2011’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows are two of the works for which he is best known.

Headed by Robert Downey Jr., the films served as a modern take on the historic and legendary detective from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and went on to have a great box office performance, with the first film concluding its theatrical run at $524 million globally, a sum subsequently beaten by its sequel with a global cume of $543.4 million.

Jude Law played Dr. John Watson in both movies, and Rachel McAdams played Irene Adler.

Doing a third movie in such a successful series would only make sense, and this is a subject that has been discussed for some time.

A Game of Shadows was published more than ten years ago, but the series hasn’t stayed inactive for that long for lack of trying. Warner Bros. first revealed its ambitions for a third Sherlock Holmes movie in 2011, shortly after the second movie’s premiere. Nevertheless, the project passed through numerous authors, draughts, and ideas.

The movie was eventually given a preliminary release date of 2020 with Dexter Fletcher as Ritchie’s successor as director before being put on indefinite hold owing to the Covid-19 epidemic. The film’s future is now uncertain but based on Ritchie’s comments, he is more than willing to assist whenever work on the movie resumes.

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