Will Ferrell’s ‘Sherlock’ Comedy Stays True To Book, Will Draw On Original Stories
Hollywood Newsroom is now Buzz Newsroom! Visit and bookmark our new site. Buzz is bigger and better, including sports, world news, gadgets and the entertainment news that you're used to. Same staff, just more stuff! Why Fark, Drudge and Huffington when you can Buzz!?It’s elementary, my dear Watsons. Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell are starring in a Sherlock Holmes movie together. Baron Cohen and Ferrell are known for their comedic talents. Their Sherlock Holmes will therefore eschew a real mystery plot, and simply focus on the laughs. Simple deduction!
Except it’s not at all true, “Holmes” screenwriter Etan Cohen insisted, telling MTV News that he prefers to have his pipe and smoke it too.
“What’s been exciting is to do a giant comedy but at the same time try to be true to the mechanics of a Sherlock Holmes story like using the Victorian forensics that Conan Doyle used,” Cohen said. “It’s a cool opportunity to write a good mystery that also gets to be a giant comedy. Fortunately a lot of the stories are public domain now. We can actually draw on a lot of the situations and language of many of the original stories.”
- from MTV