{"id":3005,"date":"2008-06-05T09:47:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T09:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2008-06-05T09:47:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T09:47:59","slug":"i-am-mildly-optimistic-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/05\/i-am-mildly-optimistic-about-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I am mildly optimistic about this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"intelliTxt\" class=\"black2pt\">Guy Ritchie is to take a look at an older style of crime movie with a new Sherlock Holmes adaptation<\/p>\n<p>The Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels director has been contracted by Warner Bros Studios to helm a film based on an upcoming comic book about the detective.<\/p>\n<p>Sherlock Holmes, set for a 2010 release, will be based on an as-yet-unpublished graphic novel take on the Arthur Conan Doyle creation by former Warner Bros creative executive Lionel Wigram, who will also produce the film alongside Dan Lin.<\/p>\n<p>Though the plot of Wigram&#8217;s approach to the 19th century detective remains a secret, it is believed it reimagines Holmes as a more adventurous character, who exploits his pugilistic talents and swordsmanship, according to Variety. Warner Bros has been considering a new cinematic approach to the Baker Street resident for a number of years, with The Descent director Neil Marshall at one point attached to direct.<\/p>\n<p>Ritchie will now rewrite a script penned by Michael Johnson and based on Wigram&#8217;s comic.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Ritchie is to take a look at an older style of crime movie with a new Sherlock Holmes adaptation The Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels director has been contracted by Warner Bros Studios to helm a film based on an upcoming comic book about the detective. Sherlock Holmes, set for a 2010 release,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/05\/i-am-mildly-optimistic-about-this\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;I am mildly optimistic about this&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,185],"class_list":["post-3005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-linked-news","tag-sherlock-holmes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-Mt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}