Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows
Dec. 17th, 2011 04:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaLet me ask you the following question: can you imagine what it must be like to be Katie Forsythe right now?
Mind you, for all I know Katie Forsythe does not like the Ritchie!Holmes movies. She'd be well within her rights! Sometimes, Hollywood commits to a movie adaptation of your work only to warp it beyond recognition for no good reason. It happened to poor Susan Cooper, and at this vantage point Katie's stories certainly seemed more sparing on machine guns and bombings. But in the "someone else has paid upward of 100M$ for Robert Downey Jr. to star in my fan fiction" life goal sweepstakes, there are worse places to be than in a winners' circle with Joss Whedon.
...More seriously, the scriptwriters totally picked up on the same thing I picked up on when I re-read the Moriarty stories, which I'm not going to state because it is a spoiler! No, not the Greuze.
(And yes, I have crawled back just to write a comedy movie review. My major deadline passed today with flying colours, and I had a few hours of cheerful optimism before I realized I had THREE WHOLE DAYS in which to write my Yuletide story, since I'm hosting a party tomorrow.)
Mind you, for all I know Katie Forsythe does not like the Ritchie!Holmes movies. She'd be well within her rights! Sometimes, Hollywood commits to a movie adaptation of your work only to warp it beyond recognition for no good reason. It happened to poor Susan Cooper, and at this vantage point Katie's stories certainly seemed more sparing on machine guns and bombings. But in the "someone else has paid upward of 100M$ for Robert Downey Jr. to star in my fan fiction" life goal sweepstakes, there are worse places to be than in a winners' circle with Joss Whedon.
...More seriously, the scriptwriters totally picked up on the same thing I picked up on when I re-read the Moriarty stories, which I'm not going to state because it is a spoiler! No, not the Greuze.
(And yes, I have crawled back just to write a comedy movie review. My major deadline passed today with flying colours, and I had a few hours of cheerful optimism before I realized I had THREE WHOLE DAYS in which to write my Yuletide story, since I'm hosting a party tomorrow.)
