Guy Ritchie and the "Sherlock Holmes" series are almost one of the IP sequels that many fans have been looking forward to for many years.
However, the series was ill-fated. First, Robert Downey Jr., on the road to making Marvel films, has gone for ten years. Furthermore, the original cast of this film has been difficult to gather. After the release of "Sherlock Holmes 2", director Guy Ritchie's works have also been released one after another. In addition to "Mysterious Agent" and "King Arthur: Beasts", two Warner's planned works are also filmed for Disney. "Aladdin".
This has led to "Sherlock Holmes 3" becoming a difficult labor film with frequent news and repeated delays. Over the years, news of the upcoming filming of the film has been released almost every year, but it has repeatedly failed.
Fans swiped one after another on Weibo tags named Guy Ritchie, and even hit the hot search list. After Iron Man finally exited, Robert Downey Jr. was vacated. This film broke the news: "Sherlock Holmes 3" changed director, directed by Dexter Fletcher.
Who is Dexter Fletcher?
When it comes to this director, Dexter Fletcher's works in recent years are more familiar to the audience. "Bohemian Rhapsody" was directed by him halfway through. In October 2018, Fletcher replaced Bryan Singer as director of "Bohemian Rhapsody," a film biopic about Queen, due to DGA regulations and the wishes of the two directors after negotiation. , he earned the title of executive producer. Next, he directed 2019's "Rocketman," a film based on the real life of British singer Elton John.
Director Dexter Fletcher made his debut as a child star. At the age of nine, he got his first movie role, playing a child in "Dragon and Snake".
The first attempt led to the child star's subsequent appearances in "The Long Good Friday", "The Elephant Man" and "Mutiny Blood" starring Bob Hoskins. As an adult, he played a 17-year-old boy in 1989's "Juvenile Newspaper". Even up until 2001's "Band of Brothers," he was still playing a 22-year-old sergeant when he was 35.
Dexter Fletcher experienced the lowest point of his career from the closing of "Junior Press" in 1993 to his marriage in 1997, when he was heavily in debt and declared bankruptcy at one point.
But it was also during these years that he met his best friend, Alan Rickman, who later played Potions professor Severus Snape. When Bob Hoskins married his wife in 1997, Severus Snape was the best man.
Then the times turned, and a year later Guy Ritchie asked him to play the chef "Soap" in Two Smoking Barrels, and it was from this film that Dexter Fletcher realized that, He is no longer the "child star who has grown crooked". He began to seriously strive for his role as an adult actor, and it was also from this period that he realized that being a director was also a suitable development path.
Then he started planning his debut. In 2011, Dexter Fletcher released Savage Bill, a true British gangster film about the current state of London's East End. He later commented that it was a post-rock film, and he pushed the camera into the brutal and dark London underworld. "I love London, so I wanted to make a film that was really about London, like The Elephant Man and Two Smoking Guns."
There is a lot of self-projection in his creations. Bill, starring Charlie Creed-Mills, as a father, has neither the ability to take care of two children nor the desire to be a good father, leaving it all to his eldest son.
In Dexter Fletcher's view, the childhood experience of being a child star forced him to take on the responsibility of an adult, which made him more precocious, and also led to his autism in adulthood. The father in Savage Bill did not learn to take on the responsibilities of an adult, while a child did, and thus lost himself and his childhood. This is Dexter Fletcher's past self, a self-portrait of his low adulthood.
Later, his musical "Sunshine Lis" also draws on the past years. The film tells the story of two young soldiers returning from trauma in Afghanistan and trying to reintegrate into local society, and for Fletcher, the film mirrors some of his friends from the past, those who lived forever in their teenage years. "Because I've changed, so now, I don't have any contact with those people anymore."
After that, he directed "Eagle Eddie", a film adapted from a real story, which is also an inspirational film. As a director, when he encouraged young actors, he often remembered what Alan Rickman said to him. "Alan was my mentor, and every time I was particularly disappointed in myself, he always encouraged me: 'Yeah, but you can do it.' Now as a director, I make sure I do the same with the young actors of."
His experience in musicals and biopics made him take over "Bohemian Rhapsody" in time after Bryan Singer opted out, and for him, taking over "Sherlock Holmes 3" again obviously means Warner's He had high hopes.
What will the effect be like if I switch players halfway through?
As far as "Sherlock Holmes" is concerned, there is no doubt that this is a series full of Guy Ritchie colors. Unlike other versions of the Sherlock Holmes derivative works, Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes is more like a combination of the London gangster in Guy Ritchie's lens and the director himself. The traditional gentility of Baker Street detectives is lost in this work, with the comical exaggeration and the East End style of Guy Ritchie himself.
The casting of this film seems quite forward-looking now. The success of "Sherlock Holmes" and "Iron Man" were only a year apart. After "Iron Man 2" and the "Avengers" that followed, Robert Downey Jr. became an instant hit, and in the ten years since the "Avengers" series was released, he has not taken on any other film. such an important main character.
The success of "Sherlock Holmes" led to the second part being directed by Guy Ritchie alone. Both films have grossed more than $520 million worldwide. At the time, Warner and Guy Ritchie's cooperation was a happy one.
But in recent years, Guy Ritchie's films have stalled. The success of the Sherlock Holmes franchise did not carry over to these films. "The Secret Service," directed by him, made $110 million worldwide with a budget of $75 million. "King Arthur: Brawl Stars" fared even worse, with the blockbuster making only $188.6 million at the global box office on a $175 million budget. And it was originally a franchise that Warner Bros. intended to develop further.
The failure of several films is enough to shake the capital's confidence in a director. When looking at Dexter Fletcher's recent directorial success, it's easy to see why Warner Bros. chose him to direct the sequel to the well-known Robert Downey Jr.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Rocketman" both performed very well, with both word-of-mouth and box office success. Meanwhile, Dexter Fletcher's perfect finishing touch to "Bohemian Rhapsody" after Bryan Singer was fired, which also makes "Sherlock Holmes" look like more feasible. Especially in the context of Fletcher's previous London gangster-themed films, he did become a reasonable candidate.
For Guy Ritchie, this is not a bad thing. Although he did not shoot the "Sherlock Holmes 3" that fans are looking forward to, he will also have Matthew McConaughey, Charlie "The Gentleman" starring Hunnam, Colin Farrell and Hugh Grant, this is almost a collection of "True Detective", "King Arthur", "Secret Agent" and many other suspenseful casts. Rich and Sherlock Holmes screenwriter Marne Davis co-wrote the screenplay and is currently scheduled for release in 2020.
This result is obviously the result of mutual compromise between the three parties, and as a sequel that has been anticipated by fans for many years, although changing the director is not what everyone expected, we can only wish silently that this film can be successful In trilogy form, the curtain falls, completing one of the series' best endings.
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