Sherlock Holmes : panel discussion & extended trailer

Robert Downey Jr., Rachel McAdams and producers Joel Silver, Susan Downey, Lionel Wigram and Dan Lin are shown here describing Sherlock Holmes in a panel discussion at Comic Con 2009. I was interested to hear Downey Jr. describe how this film adaptation was based closely on Conan Doyle's work, saying they went "back to the source, so that was how we reinvigorated it, was by deciding to change less than had been changed previously."





Here's an extended trailer of the one released previously:



Here's the longer 22 minute video of the Comic Con panel:


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The 39 Steps

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the British author (and future Governor General of Canada) John Buchan, first published in 1915. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous habit of getting himself out of sticky situations.

First made into a film in 1935 by
Alfred Hitchcock,
this 2008 tv film features:

Rupert Penry-Jones (Persuasion)

Lydia Leonard (Casualty 1907)
Eddie Marsans (Little Dorrit)
Patrick Malahide (Middlemarch)
David Haig (My Boy Jack)
Patrick Kennedy (Bleak House)
Alex Jennings (Cranford)

The screenplay does differ from the book.
They added the character of Victoria Sinclair and renamed or omitted other characters.

>>PBS Masterpiece link

I stayed up late one night to watch this on Youtube
so it held my attention, or to be more accurate, RPJ did!