Stephen Fry of V For Vendetta fame, the only film I have ever seen him him in, recently had an interview with Scott Huver on the much anticipated sequel.
"I play Mycroft, Sherlock Holmes' brother - the smarter brother, I hasten to add. He's so lazy that he never gets the reputation that Sherlock does. Historically it's a very interesting character, and as a lover of Sherlock Holmes since I was a boy I've always enjoyed that character myself. I hope that people enjoy it. It's certainly been fun making the picture. I'm on it until January and it's really been fun."
Fry's also a fan of director Guy Richie's inventive reinterpretation of Holmes-ian lore.
"It's what's known in the Sherlock business as noncanonical. It's not based on the books, it's based on the idea of the characters and the relationships, and I love the way that Guy uses the camera. I love the fluency and speed and the wit and the drive of it. It's not exactly Steampunk, but there's a very 21st century angle on Victorian England. And I love the tweeds and the fact that it was Sherlock Holmes, but it managed to escape the Greek tradition. Which of us doesn't love Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett, in particular those two, but he's the kind of character that will be done in 200 years time. They'll be making hologram movies of Sherlock Holmes. He'll never die. He's an imperishable figure. So each age will remake him in their own image, if you like and I like what Guy did. He's very filmic."
On Robert Downey, Jr., playing Sherlock...
"To some extent, but he's such a charismatic and likeable screen presence, Robert, that you very soon forget it. More than most, he owns every second of screen time. He's just wonderfully likeable. He's the real thing.
Sherlock Holmes 2, also starring Jude Law, Noomi Rapace and Jared Harris, is scheduled to hit theaters on December 16, 2011.