Sherlock Holmes: Book vs. Movie
Guy Ritchie's 2009 film Sherlock Holmes draws on Arthur Conan Doyle's characters. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law play Holmes and Watson investigating an apparent return from the dead.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Year
- 1887
- Pages
- 252Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 5 hr 23 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- David Ian Davies
From their rooms at 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate cases that range from stolen possessions and blackmail to murder and threats to national security. Holmes searches for explanations in details others dismiss, while Watson records the clients, disguises, and dangers their work brings. The four novels and fifty-six short stories follow their partnership through Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
- Director
- Guy Ritchie
- Writer
- Simon Kinberg, Guy Ritchie, Anthony Peckham, Mike Johnson
- Year
- 2009
- Runtime
- 2 hr 8 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong
- Genre
- action, adventure, buddy cop, crime thriller, mystery
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Sherlock Holmes helps send Lord Blackwood to the gallows, only for reports of the condemned man's return to draw him into another investigation. With Watson preparing to marry and Irene Adler pursuing an agenda of her own, Holmes follows a trail of apparent supernatural events through London. Blackwood's followers are preparing something far larger than a single murder.
Other adaptations of this book
The Sherlock Holmes storiesSherlock · TV show · 2010 · BBC OneDetails
- Creator
- Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss
- Writer
- Mark Gatiss
- Year
- 2010–2017
- Episode
- 1 hr 30 min
- Seasons
- 4
- Episodes
- 13
- Network
- BBC One
- Cast
- Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Rupert Graves, Una Stubbs
Back from military service in Afghanistan, John Watson needs somewhere to live and a reason to get out of bed. Sharing a London flat with Sherlock Holmes brings him into investigations involving baffling deaths, elaborate deceptions and criminals who relish a challenge. Sherlock's talent for deduction makes him useful to the police, but his appetite for danger increasingly reaches into their private lives.
The Sherlock Holmes storiesSherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows · Movie · 2011Details
- Director
- Guy Ritchie
- Writer
- Kieran Mulroney, Michele Mulroney
- Year
- 2011
- Runtime
- 2 hr 9 min
- Cast
- Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris
A string of bombings and suspicious deaths convinces Sherlock Holmes that Professor Moriarty is preparing a much larger crime. The investigation interrupts Watson's wedding plans and takes the pair across Europe with Simza, a fortune-teller searching for her brother. Against an opponent who can anticipate his methods, Holmes must work out how seemingly disconnected attacks serve a common purpose.
The Sherlock Holmes storiesElementary · TV show · 2012 · CBSDetails
- Creator
- Robert Doherty
- Year
- 2012–2019
- Episode
- 42 min
- Seasons
- 7
- Episodes
- 154
- Network
- CBS
- Cast
- Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, Jon Michael Hill, Aidan Quinn
After leaving rehab, Sherlock Holmes settles in New York, where his father hires former surgeon Joan Watson to supervise his recovery. Sherlock resumes detective work with the NYPD, pulling Joan into cases that demand more than keeping him sober. As she develops investigative skills of her own, their arrangement grows into a partnership tested by addiction, old enemies and the demands of the work.
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