We’re still three months away from the release of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes this Christmas, but you better believe they’re already cooking up the next entry in the series. Warner Bros. is in talks with Kieran and Michele Mulroney, a husband and wife screenwriting team, to begin work on a sequel.
It’s strange that no mention is made of the writers of Sherlock Holmes: Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham, and Simon Kinberg. However, the Mulroney’s are no more proven than any of these writers, only having worked on Justice League and the forthcoming Paper Man starring Ryan Reynolds.
It’s likely, though, that we’ll see more writers tacked on to Sherlock Holmes 2 as time goes on — the most recent film that comes to mind having a screenwriting credit so lengthy (3 credit writers and 2 screen story credits) was Pirates of the Caribbean.
Time will tell whether Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, and Rachel McAdams are a box office draw large enough to create a franchise as powerful as Johnny Depp’s flamboyant pirate spectacles. Considering the way things are going for Downey lately, I wouldn’t doubt it at all.
