'Iron Man' Robert Downey Jr.is going to put a new spin on the legendary character of Sherlock Holmes. He's going for "bad-ass". In the new Guy Ritchie film about the Victorian detective, the actor has promised that Ritchie has a high-octane approach planned for the character.
"I got to spend some time with Guy and I love his take on it," he told the Sun ewspaper. "We're both martial arts enthusiasts and in the original stories of Sherlock Holmes, he's kind of a bad-ass and a bare-knuckle boxer and studies the rare, fictional martial art of baritsu."
"If you look baritsu up, they can't even really tell you what it is, so it gives us a lot of leeway."
Downey Jr believes that the detective is still appealing to 21st century audiences. "It's a period piece where you don't modernise it, you just realise how modern it was," he says.
