The sequel to last year’s surprise hit movie, Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the master detective and Jude Law as his sidekick, Dr. Watson, arrives on Dec. 16th. The first movie was “inspired” by Arthur Conan Doyle’s character, but the second, called Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows features Holmes’s nemesis, draws from the story, The Final Problem.

UPDATE:
Penguin will release an anthology of Sherlock Holmes stories in September that includes The Final Problem. A burst on the cover reads, “Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture.”

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Conan Doyle Retail Price: $14.00 Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) – (2011-09-27) ISBN / EAN: 0143120158 / 9780143120155

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Last year, Penguin released the following collection of Holmes stories.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Conan Doyle Retail Price: $14.00 Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) – (2009-09-29) ISBN / EAN: 9780143117025 / 9780143117025

Official Movie Site: SherlockHolmes2.WarnerBros.com

Note: The YouTube version embeded below is supposedly “only” on iTunes trailers, so it may disappear. In that case, link here.

The gypsy Sim, shown in the opening sequence is played by Noomi Repace who starred as Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish-language adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s Millenium trilogy. Rooney Mara will be playing that character in the English-language version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, scheduled to open 12/21.

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