According to Variety when Neil Marshall is finished up on ‘Doomsday’ he’s going to be working on ‘Sherlock Holmes’ an adaptation of a new comic book from producer Lionel Wigram. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s hero has made frequent trips to the big screen before but it’s been a good while since we had anything of note. Supposedly Wigram’s book has altered the Holmes personality slightly to be less crime-solving drug addict, and more crime-solving face-puncher which sounds pretty cool to me…

Wigram’s vision has Holmes losing some of his Victorian stuffiness and being more adventuresome, including playing up his skills as a bare-knuckle boxer and expert swordsman as he goes about solving crimes.

I was still hoping Marshall might go back to working on his zombies-on-an-oil-rig film ‘Outpost’, but honestly i’m happy to hear about anything he has in the pipeline.

You can read the original story over at Variety here

*the picture of Nimoy as Holmes has nothing to do with anything… I just thought it was funny