Robert Downey Jr. is currently carrying two movie franchises -- the Marvel ''Iron Man'' proto-''Avengers'' thing for Paramount and the brawling steampunk ''Sherlock Holmes'' series for Warner Brothers -- so it is perhaps understandable that he is showing a touch of fatigue. In the new Holmes adventure, ''A Game of Shadows,'' his imperiousness is...
Arthur Conan Doyle grew so to hate his greatest creation, Sherlock Holmes, that in 1893 he tried to kill him off, plunging him over the Reichenbach Falls. He called it ''justifiable homicide,'' saying, ''If I had not killed him, he would certainly have killed me.'' Had Conan Doyle been able to consult with the writers of ''Sherlock Holmes,'' the...
Early in ''Sherlock Holmes'' -- and also again, later on -- the famous sleuth demonstrates his ratiocinative powers in a way undreamed of by his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle. Observing a thug standing guard over a horrible crime in a dimly lighted church, Holmes calculates just how to surprise the man, disarm him and beat him senseless. The audience...
Guy Stuart Ritchie (født 10. september 1968 i Hatfield, Hertfordshire) er en engelsk manuskriptforfatter og filminstruktør. Sammen med sin producent Matthew Vaughn driver han selskabet SKA Film.
Ritchie er ud af en engelsk arbejderklassefamilie. Han er ordblind og forlod folkeskolen som 15-årig. Han er som instruktør og manuskriptforfatter autodidakt. Han debuterede med kortfilmen The Hard Case i 1995 og brugte efterfølgende tre år på at skaffe penge til at realisere sit manuskript til Rub, stub og to rygende geværer, der fik premiere i 1998. Den blev en stor succes og foregår ligesom opfølgeren Snatch fra 2000 i Londons kriminelle miljø.
Ritchie blev 22. december 2000 gift med Madonna. De fik en søn, Rocco (født 2000) og adopterede sønnen David, men blev skilt i 2008.
Robbie Williams' sang She's Madonna handler om Ritchie. Fold ud