Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows to find the delivery man. Holmes, having concealed himself in Watson's office by using one of his urban camouflage suits, reads Watson's memoirs on the typewriter and adds a question mark after the words "The End". After the success of the 2009 film "Sherlock Holmes", a sequel was fast-tracked by Warner Bros. with director Guy Ritchie dropping out of an adaptation of "Lobo" and Robert Downey Jr. leaving "Cowboys & Aliens". It was unclear if Rachel McAdams would appear in the film. McAdams said, "If I do, it won't be a very big thing. It's not a lead part". Warner
Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes The great majority of them are however pastiches. The only known adaptation of a canonical story is "Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles", which follows a different plot involving clearly supernatural elements. Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes The stories of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were very popular as adaptations for the stage, and later film, and still later television. The four-volumes of the "Universal Sherlock Holmes" (1995) compiled by Ronald B. De Waal lists over 25,000 Holmes-related productions and products. They include the original writings, "together with the translations of these tales into sixty-three languages, plus