Brains vs. Brawn: The Battle for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes
By Lyndsay Faye
November 30, 1999On December 24th of 2009—long, long ago, eons past, before Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch elevated Belstaff winter wear to the crown prince’s robes of Sherlockian culture—Roger Ebert wrote a review of Guy Ritchie’s hotly anticipated film Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. “The less I thought about Sherlock Holmes,” he said, writing…