Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) 25, 2020, with Downey and Law reprising their roles, Richie returning as director and Chris Brancato writing the script. Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 mystery period action film based on the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey, and Dan Lin. The screenplay, by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham, and Simon Kinberg, was developed from a story by Wigram and Johnson. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law portray Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson respectively. Set
Sherlock Holmes pastiches published in 2000 a novel with the title "Sherlock Holmes e il misterioso caso di Ippolito Nievo" ("Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Case of Ippolito Nievo") set in London, Turin and Naples. The collection "Shadows Over Baker Street" (2003) contains 14 stories by 20 authors pitting Holmes against the forces of the Cthulhu Mythos. Among them is Neil Gaiman's "A Study in Emerald", which won the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. The title is a play on "A Study in Scarlet". The narrator, never named (but whose initials in the end point him to be the criminal henchman