I’ve just watched the trailer to the new Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey Jr., Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong and Jude Law. It’s directed by Guy Ritchie and I tell you what, it looks bloody MAGIC!

I know. It’s R to the AD! I was smiling the whole way through and even laughed at the end. FACT.

Aah ja – I’m THOROUGHLY looking forward to that movie and am so stoked that Rob is back – like PROPERLY back! We all need him in our lives. He is so necessary.

Just to recap:

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish-born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based “consulting detective”, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, inductive reasoning and inference to solve difficult cases. In virtually all of his appearances, he is portrayed as the protagonist.

Awesome!

It should be mentioned at this point that I lived in the same street as one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s residences (he clearly wasn’t there anymore, but there was a plaque on the wall outside the door) in Marylebone, when I first hit the London scene in the late 90’s. W1, baby – that’s how I roll.

They will make many many of these Sherlock Holmes films. It will be the new Bond. But better, because they haven’t gone so far down the road and lost the magic (please prove me wrong with the next Bond – I miss it). They’ve got gadgets, girls, action and all sorts of fun in this new Holmes vibe it seems. Whereas Bond, these days, doesn’t even say “Bond, James Bond” anymore.

How sad is that? He didn’t say it in the most recent Bond!

I know!!

WHO ARE YOU, JAMES?

More on Sherlock Holmes here.