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http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1604911/story.jhtml

Holmes and Watson. Oh, yes. S&H fans, does this bit of quotation by Jude Law sound familiar?

"I knew enough about Sherlock Holmes to know that there was a lot of unchartered material," Jude Law said of the script. "I knew [Downey's casting] was going to be something exciting, and therefore the project was going to be something exciting. And as soon as I met him, we got on very well — which is a good sign — and we both agreed that we wanted to really make this a piece about the relationship between Watson and Holmes."

"I think the word bromance is so passé," Downey grinned. "We are two men who happen to be roommates who wrestle a lot and share a bed.

"No," Downey laughed. "To me, the great win in our depiction of Sherlock Holmes is Jude Law's Watson, [who is] much more right from the book. He's had a military career, a decorated soldier, a serious doctor, a bit of a womanizer, a bit of a gambler. And I think that makes him a much more interesting foil for Holmes."

"When you go back to the books, there's so much more," Law said of the Holmes/Watson dynamic, which, when the film hits theaters in November, will be anything but elementary. "They're both meaner, harder, more complicated. They both live in a London that is much seedier and much more dangerous. And when you highlight the interesting elements in the [original] stories and turn them into a modern sensibility, you've got a really exciting equation."