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Chris Columbus reportedly approached to oversee redo of his own film.
Not content with just having the Robert Downey Jr. movie franchise, the BBC series with Benedict Cumberbatch, and an upcoming TV show with Jonny Lee Miller, Hollywood also reportedly wants to revisit the early years of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
Director Barry Levinson and screenwriter Chris Columbus collaborated on the 1985 prequel Young Sherlock Holmes, which envisioned the future great detective meeting a young John Watson in school (read our DVD review here). According to Badass Digest, Paramount has approached Columbus "and asked him to 'steer' a remake of that film."
Columbus would go on to direct the first two Harry Potter films and Percy Jackson and the Olympians. His take on Young Sherlock Holmes, while charming, certainly wasn't faithful to Doyle's tales, owing more to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. And given the school setting and Alan Cox's resemblance to a chubby Harry Potter, it's also funny to look at the film now knowing Columbus would go on to direct two Potter films.
On a technical level, Young Sherlock Holmes marked the first fully CG-created character in a feature film, the stained glass knight seen in the clip below, which just so happened to be designed by future Pixar honcho John Lasseter:
Not content with just having the Robert Downey Jr. movie franchise, the BBC series with Benedict Cumberbatch, and an upcoming TV show with Jonny Lee Miller, Hollywood also reportedly wants to revisit the early years of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
Director Barry Levinson and screenwriter Chris Columbus collaborated on the 1985 prequel Young Sherlock Holmes, which envisioned the future great detective meeting a young John Watson in school (read our DVD review here). According to Badass Digest, Paramount has approached Columbus "and asked him to 'steer' a remake of that film."
Columbus would go on to direct the first two Harry Potter films and Percy Jackson and the Olympians. His take on Young Sherlock Holmes, while charming, certainly wasn't faithful to Doyle's tales, owing more to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. And given the school setting and Alan Cox's resemblance to a chubby Harry Potter, it's also funny to look at the film now knowing Columbus would go on to direct two Potter films.
On a technical level, Young Sherlock Holmes marked the first fully CG-created character in a feature film, the stained glass knight seen in the clip below, which just so happened to be designed by future Pixar honcho John Lasseter:
