This is just such a bad idea. Sherlock Holmes is awesome. And yes, he's strong. But he doesn't go around beating people up. The most "action-y" scene in any of the canonical stories was a boat chase down the Thames. Which, granted, was awesome and suspenseful. But Sherlock Holmes is not James Bond with a plaid cape!
Grrr.
Update:
Noooooo!!!!!!!!!! This is exactly what I was afraid of!!!
"As for McAdams, she'll play Irene Adler, Holmes' love interest who only appeared in Doyle's 1891 short story "A Scandal in Bohemia," but is expected to return in any sequels for this potential new franchise."
FYI: Sherlock Holmes NEVER fell in love. NEVER. It didn't happen. Not once. Watson makes a point of saying so as he introduces "A Scandal in Bohemia." He starts the whole thing off my saying explicitly that Holmes was never ever in love with Irene Adler.
And I quote:
"TO SHERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.
It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position.
He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory."
In fact, that's why "The Three Garridebs" is so shocking...because for the one and only time in over 1000 pages, Holmes shows sincere emotion. It happens ONCE. And said emotion is concern for his friend of several years (Watson) NOT romantic love.Stupid Hollywood.
