May 18, 2009 by Brian Gallagher

First Sherlock Holmes Trailer Is Here!

Warner Bros. has just released the first trailer for the upcoming blockbuster, Sherlock Holmes, which is set for release on December 25. Click below to take a look at this new trailer for yourself.

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Guy Ritchie has come aboard to direct, based on Lionel Wigram's upcoming comic book Sherlock Holmes.

The logline remains under wraps, but executives at Warners are aiming to reinvent Holmes and sidekick Dr. John H. Watson. Wigram's noted that the new Holmes would be more adventuresome and take advantage of his skills as a boxer and swordsman.

Sherlock Holmes, which stars Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams and Mark Strong, will be released in theaters nationwide on December 25.

Sherlock Holmes was released December 25th, 2009 and stars Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Eddie Marsan, Robert Maillet, Geraldine James, Kelly Reilly. The film is directed by Guy Ritchie.


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  1. Molemanjoop

    Looks OK but I think Ritchie is losing his talent little by little. Even though RDJ is in this, it looks like it might flop !!!!!!

    3 years agoby @molemanjupeFlag

  2. Illuminati

    SHYMALAN learnt an important lesson with his last 2 stinkers. STOP writing, just DIRECT. He is talented but needs to step away from his work.
    This is something RITCHIE will learn, but probably not with this firecracker-turd. RITCHIE has lost any artistic credibility he had.
    I'm shocked at how many people on this board are attracted to this trailer.

    3 years agoby @illuminatiFlag

  3. The First Avenger: JohnnyBlaze

    i may be wrong but isint the big guy in the hammer scene an x wrestler from way back from the wwf?

    3 years agoby @johnnyblazetb82Flag

  4. The First Avenger: JohnnyBlaze

    friggin AWSOME! cant wait 4 this 1!

    3 years agoby @johnnyblazetb82Flag

  5. seymourstrange

    looks good

    3 years agoby @seymourstrangeFlag

  6. Alyce (Uh-Lease)

    I saw this tralier last night before terminator....looks like a good watch

    3 years agoby @alyceepoohFlag

  7. P.A.C.K. '75

    OK - J.A., I'm pickin' up what you're puttin' down. This is so not Basil Rathbone or Jeremy Brett that's for sure. And yes the Trek to Holmes comparison was only as classics that younger audiences are perhaps not that familiar with. (NO offense intended to either camp.)

    And I do agree that they are very much capitalizing on the fact that Downey is the lead. He's the big draw for a film that might otherwise be ignored. Campy? Probably. Guy Ritchie-ized? Yeah absolutely. BUT I still want to see it!

    3 years agoby @apinneyFlag

  8. Illuminati

    the drugs of holmes, the martial arts, boxing, watson a fit capable fighter, ALL THIS IS TRUE...but who cares.

    This trailer looks ridiculous!

    3 years agoby @illuminatiFlag

  9. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    AShhh but you comparise Star Trek to Sherlock Holmes, unless in the terms that they are both classics.

    Star Trek stayed truly faithful to the actual original 1960s series. It also had quite an entertaining ploty with dazzling effects.
    Sherlock Holmes is not known for the things described within this film, occults, dead rising, ghosts, boxing. It just seems that Ritchie is trying to add his usual Gangster conventional style to this and well, it doesn't work. Because that Sherlock is a detective, not a gangster style detectove and London looks too modern, that this film seems actionative but laughable at the same time.
    It seems like they are trying to possibly put as much action into this as they can to create a USP alongside with the simple fact that Downey is in the main role.

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  10. P.A.C.K. '75

    As with all things big-budget-action Hollywood they're going for the lowest common denominator. Most of the 18 to 34 year olds plunkin' down the sixpence for tickets aren't gonna know classic Sherlock Holmes anyway right? It's just like re-inventing "Star Trek" for the youngsters.

    As for the drugs it's well known that Holmes had a coke habit. They even referred to his addiction in the movie "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" (1976) with Nicol Williamson.

    3 years agoby @apinneyFlag

  11. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    I'm going to definately check that out in the short story collection.
    But you see the problem they will have with this is how many people actually know that little tidbit of information.
    They are publicily aware of the major Sherlock stories.

    And i think were ever you copy and pasted that info from PACK, i think the drug habit part they were describing Downey not sherlock.

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  12. Illuminati

    This is what you get when you give a ONE-TRICK-PONY to do something new!
    RITCHIE was original with LOCK'STOCK, and improved it SNATCH, but they were still the same movie. Since then he has only proved he can play the same tired note over again. They are all stylized, over-narrated,cliched brit-gangsters, with interlaced stories of characters no one cares about!

    I don't care about the books of SHERLOCK HOLMES, i still think this looks ridiculous! It's looks like slapstick comedy, brit-gangsters, explosive action, martial art action! What a mess this film will be!

    Ritchie just DIRECT and STOP WRITTING! The producers need a good ol' fashioned pineapple rape for wasting money on this!

    3 years agoby @illuminatiFlag

  13. IndyJones

    doesnt look amazing but it doesnt look awful. going to wait for another trialer

    3 years agoby @indyjonesFlag

  14. Rudy

    Underneath this pillow lies the key to my release.

    3 years agoby @rudyFlag

  15. zeus

    You what,this trailer is really really cool,Robert is look good,dont know about Jude Law,the guy puts me off and i really dont see the chemistry there,but anyhow Mark Strong..good actor and Rachel..(u know) and finally Guy,Rock'n'rolla was bollocks so i hope he can make it up with this.

    3 years agoby @zeusFlag

  16. P.A.C.K. '75

    At various times throughout his career Holmes engaged in the use of a; Pistol, Cane, Riding Crop, and Sword as a weapon. He is also an accomplished Martial Artist and Boxer. The man is often described as a disheveled mess and having a drug habit. He's passionate and a showman when the mood strikes.

    Holmes himself "rose from the dead" after his battle with Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. And if we want to stretch for ties to the occult, there is always the short story collection "Shadows over Baker Street" - check it out.

    So "re-inventing" Holmes as an action hero is not that great a leap. Downey has the acting chops, self-deprecating humor and action cred (Iron Man) to pull it off. I say bring it on!

    3 years agoby @apinneyFlag

  17. Structure (ONSTRA)

    I have a feeling this is one of the movies i really think they are good and they turn out to be very bad. its either that or I have something inside of me is wrong.
    NOPE, its that. I seem to be pretty Fine. LOL.

    3 years agoby @gaj1992Flag

  18. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    Actually it is like the originals Fallen, they just took bits and bobs and form it, made a great origin story on the concepts of the old 1960s series.

    Well this take looks completely utterly fing wrong and its pissed all over my crumpets so to speak in such typical English manner.

    This will get demolished by critics.

    Occults, boxing, rising dead, ghosts and Sherlock Holmes not even uwe boll is stupid enough to create a combination like that.

    The director & screenwriter of this film needs to slapped with a fish and then have chips thrown over them with Malt vinegar.

    I reckon for this they should have got
    Clive Owen for Sherlock
    &
    Phillip Seymour Hoffman for Watson.

    You can't recreate a classic, especially a piece of literature. its like putting the 3 muskateers in Iraq right now...It doesn't work

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  19. The Narrator: The Better Man

    J.A., about Watson, I remember Jude Law saying this is a whole different take on Watson and different from the books. I mean the New Star Trek is nothing like the originals but way better.

    3 years agoby @narratorFlag

  20. The Narrator: The Better Man

    Looks to be great! Rachael is hot, and Downey will own this performance.

    3 years agoby @narratorFlag

  21. Darko

    I don't know why, but it reminds me of Rush Hour. I didn't think this was suposed to be a comedy/action movie.

    3 years agoby @brokenweldFlag

  22. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    No Punisher i saw the same trailer.
    It looks like an corny action flick posed to look like its set in victorian times.
    I'll admit it looks like a good action flick, but associating that atrocity to Sherlock Holmes is a crime.

    I don't remember Sherlock Holmes dealing with supernatural occults trying to bring back the dead or saving the end of the world.

    Guy Ritchie is only good when it comes to typical british gangster flicks.

    It just looks like they've tried to reinvent something that is a classic literacy character and trie dputting him somewhere between his original time (Victorian) to the modern day.
    Which doesn't blend well.

    And i would have preferred a proper british actor for Holmes, not RDJ, despite how talented he is
    And watson is meant to be quite tubby, not slim and slender, which i think Phillip Seymour Hoffman would have been a brilliant Watson.

    My guess is that you lot are so infatuated by RDJ probably due to his performance in Iron Man, that you can't see how atrocious this movie really is.

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  23. elicash55

    I have to agree with J.A. on this one. It seems like everything is an action (summer blockbuster popcorn pounding fast stuff coming at your face) movie nowadays. It just doesn't look very original, visually or substance wise. And also, just because Downey Jr. is in it, doesn't mean it can't still be a huge flop of a movie. Revolver was a f*cking mess of a movie. I mean hell, even De Niro and Pacino have laid a fat turd in the past year...did anyone see Righteous Kill? HORRIBLE!!! Good actors are in bad movies all the time...I'm just sayin'...the potential is there...I'm still optimistic though.

    3 years agoby @elicash55Flag

  24. PUNISHER

    J.A. you must have seen a different trailer cause this looks great.

    3 years agoby @cerealkillerFlag

  25. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    That looked f*cking terrible.

    comical, with some action but god damn f*cking awful to be called Sherlock Holmes.

    Since when did Sherlock Holmes deal with the occult and the end of the world.

    Looks to be one of his worst movie yet.
    People will still see this crap for RDJ though

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  26. Twisted Smile (The Untold Smile)

    Looks very good.

    3 years agoby @twistedsmileFlag

  27. Mmm_mmm

    So what I am getting from this is that the good ol' Brothers Warner are trying to make Holmes into an 19th century Dog the Bounty Hunter. Cuz that trailer was like the recap to season 1

    3 years agoby @mmm-mmmFlag

  28. WiseGuy

    Looks pretty good. If Robert Downey Jr.'s in it, it must be good.
    I'll check it out.

    3 years agoby @zgcorleone072Flag

  29. UNoLazyboy

    Never thought Sherlock Holmes would look like a kick ass movie..very nice.

    3 years agoby @unolazyboyFlag

  30. IAmxVindicated

    Anything with Robert Downey Jr. is good. I will see this.

    3 years agoby @iamxvindicatedFlag

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