

Right now the plans for the franchise's solidified next step, a third movie, are still a bit nebulous. Different sensibilities will get you to different places downfield.” “What I saw was very humble beginnings, very uncertain outcomes, a lot of creative risk-taking, but there was also an algorithm to the potential,” Downey Jr. recalled. “And they really did know what they were doing and they had this tight-knit group of people from jump locked into a vision that enables them to broaden” the source material into the cinematic universe. It was like a master class,” Downey said. “I do think that the decade of tutelage and observation, what we were both able to have with Marvel, watching them build out and see all the opportunities, was invaluable. Team Downey wants to try the same multimedia approach with its Sherlock world - and one its producers have been closely following for years over at Marvel. “Spin-off characters from a third movie, to see what’s going on in the television landscape, to see what Warner Media is starting to build out, things with HBO and HBO Max.”įans have already seen a bit of this plan put into action with WB's planned The Batman and its Gotham PD-focused HBO Max show. “We think there’s an opportunity to build it out more,” Susan Downey said.
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In Downey Jr.'s eyes, that means opportunity: “So to me, why do a third movie if you’re not going to be able to spin off into some real gems of diversity and other times and elements?” Seuss Universe.when's enough enough? Well, as the Sherlock portrayer himself clarified, "At this point, we really feel that there is not a mystery-verse built out anywhere, and Conan Doyle is the definitive voice in that arena, I think, to this day." Yeah, there isn't really a "mystery-verse" out there, whatever that means. Right, right - there's a Marvel Universe, a DC Universe, a Sony Universe of Marvel characters, a Dr. and his producing partner/wife Susan Downey explained that Sherlock Holmes 3 is just the entry point for a giant Sherlock universe. Speaking at a Fast Company Innovation Festival panel, Downey Jr. However, that will all be changing with this next entry if Downey Jr. While a third movie is on the way, the Guy Ritchie-helmed films ( Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows) never felt overly expansive with its Holmes (Downey Jr.) and Watson (Jude Law) double act. is bringing what he learned about massive IP universes to his other giant film franchise: Sherlock Holmes. The Marvel Cinematic Universe's Iron Man took away plenty of lessons from the Disney company's large-scale film plans after solving its Endgame with a snap.
