Look! It’s the Sherlock Holmes cast! Mark Strong, the resident baddie is on the right. Others are Kelly Reilly, Robert Downey Jr., and Rachel McAdams.
(I always feel like I’m a 1950s tabloid writer if I use the slang “sez.”)
Mark Strong told IGN about the villain(s) in Guy Ritchie’s upcoming Sherlock Holmes. I put that little (s) in there because Strong explains the sort-of appearance of Moriarty, the most famous Holmes-nemesis:
“Moriarty’s in it… but you don’t really see him. I think he’s there because if the franchise carries on, there’s a possibility that he will appear in a larger guise.”
So does he mean that people just talk about Moriarty? Or is there a big portrait of him with shifty eyes? Does his name appear in a newspaper Holmes (Robert Downey Jr., if you didn’t know…and I doubt you didn’t) picks up? Is he a large shadow on a wall?
And what about Strong’s own role as the actual villain of this piece. Here’s what he says:
“But for the purposes of this one and the detective narrative, I’m the guy that Sherlock’s after, Lord Blackwood. And he’s a cultist/Satanist lord who is the ultimate cad.”
The ultimate cad? What, he’s the villain and his biggest crime is he’s a bad boyfriend? Call of the mild, indeed. I’m wondering about this description.
