Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Book vs. Movie

Guy Ritchie's 2011 film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows draws on Arthur Conan Doyle's detective stories. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law return as Holmes and Watson, with Jared Harris as Moriarty.

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About the book and the movie
Book
The Sherlock Holmes stories cover
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.

Movie
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows poster
Director
Guy Ritchie
Writer
Kieran Mulroney, Michele Mulroney
Year
2011
Runtime
2 hr 9 minWatch on Amazon
Cast
Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris
Genre
action, adventure, crime thriller, mystery, steampunk
IMDb
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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.

Other adaptations of this book

  1. The Sherlock Holmes storiesSherlock · TV show · 2010 · BBC One
    Details
    Sherlock poster
    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.

  2. The Sherlock Holmes storiesElementary · TV show · 2012 · CBS
    Details
    Elementary poster
    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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