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Robert Downey Jr. and Guy Ritchie making a Sherlock Holmes movie
SharoKham 09/05/08, 10:53 | 
0 | that's going to focus on Sherlock Holmes's martial arts prowess. Despite the fact that Googling Holmes's martial art baritsu instantly reveals that it's a mispelling of Bartitsu, a Victorian English martial art still practiced today (no, really), Ritchie and Downey have decided that Baritsu must be a complete cypher and is therefore the perfect opportunity to to combine Downey's 7 years of wing chun training with Guy Ritchie's brown belt in Brazilian jiujitsu (plus some judo and karate) to create the ultimate fictional martial art ever seen on screen.
Now there's a lot of obvious stuff here with great suck potential, but it occurs to me that the real story may happen when notorious self-hating latent homosexual Guy Ritchie is forced to depict the Holmes/Watson relationship on screen. Will he be able to control himself, or are we going to end up with Showdown In Little Tokyo 2: This Time It's Foggy? | | Next | Reply - Reply With Quote | | | | |
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