Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
The game is afoot.
Country
Production
Budget
$125 000 000
Box office
$543 848 418
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
Philippe Rousselot
Composer
Artist
Sarah Greenwood, Gary Jopling, Ben Collins
Audition
Reg Poerscout-Edgerton, Elodie Demey
Editing
James Herbert
Whole Team (275)
Whole Team (275)
Short description
There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.
What's left behind the scenes
- Brad Pitt, Gary Oldman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Penn, and Javier Bardem were considered for the role of Professor Moriarty.
- The Warner Brothers film company was so eager to release a sequel to this film that director Guy Ritchie left the project, and Robert Downey Jr. was forced to turn down filming in John Favreau's science fiction action film "Cowboys & Aliens" (2011).
- The character Claude Ravache, played by Thierry Nevic, is based on the real-life anarchist François-Claudio Koenigstein, better known as Ravachol, who was executed in 1892 at the age of 32.
- Before World War I, hand grenades in the British army had only impact detonators. They exploded if dropped or struck against the ground or a hard surface after the safety pin was removed.
- The chess match between Holmes and Moriarty is based on a real 1966 game played between Bent Larsen (1935-2010) and Tigran Petrosian (1929-1984) in Santa Monica, USA.
- The chess game between Holmes and Moriarty is based on a real game from 1966 between Bent Larsen (1935-2010) and Tigran Petrosian (1929-1984) in Santa Monica, USA.
- Filming the dance scene with Jude Law and Noomi Rapace took three days. The dance lasts only 15 seconds on screen.
- Holmes' makeup in the train dismantling scene is an allusion to the appearance of the Joker as played by Heath Ledger ("The Dark Knight").
- In Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, Watson is named "John H. Watson" everywhere except for the 1891 story "The Man with the Split Lip," where his wife calls him James. This nuance puzzled researchers for many years until Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) suggested that "H" in his name stands for "Hamish," which is a Scottish variant of the name James. In the film "Hamish" is Watson's middle name.
- Holmes' makeup in the train fight scene is an allusion to Heath Ledger's appearance as the Joker in 'The Dark Knight'.
- Warner Brothers was so eager to release a sequel to this film that director Guy Ritchie left the Lobo project, a DC Comics character, and Robert Downey Jr. was forced to turn down a role in John Favreau’s sci-fi action film “Cowboys & Aliens” (2011).
- During the bachelor party the day before the wedding, Watson is shown with two medals, indicating his participation in the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1878-1880.
- Warner Bros. was so eager to release the sequel to this film that director Guy Ritchie left the Lobo project (based on the DC Comics character), and Robert Downey Jr. was forced to drop out of Jon Favreau's sci-fi action movie 'Cowboys & Aliens' (2011).
- Filming the dance between Jude Law's and Noomi Rapace's characters took three days. On screen, the dance lasts only 15 seconds.
- Holmes's note to Watson reads: 'If it is convenient for you, come at once. If it is not convenient, come anyway.' This is a quote from the 1927 story 'The Man with the Twisted Lip' by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930).
- In Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, Watson is named 'John H. Watson' everywhere except in the 1891 story 'The Man with the Twisted Lip,' where his wife calls him James. This nuance puzzled researchers for years until Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) suggested that the 'H' in his name stands for 'Hamish,' which is the Scottish version of the name James. In the film, 'Hamish' is Watson's middle name.
- Holmes' note to Watson reads: “If it is convenient for you, come immediately. If it is not convenient – come anyway.” This is a quote from Arthur Conan Doyle's (1859-1930) 1927 short story “The Creeping Man”.
- The character of Claude Ravach, played by Thierry Neuvic, is based on the real-life anarchist François Claudius Koenigstein, better known as Ravachol, who was executed at the age of 32 in 1892.
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