Director�Guy Ritchie spoke to USA Today about his upcoming Sherlock Holmes film.�

“It will be a very big production, visceral and intellectual,” Ritchie says. “His brilliance will percolate into the action.”

The expected 2010 Warner release will be set in the olden days, he says, but the emphasis will be as much on Holmes’ physical prowess as it is on his keen powers of deduction.

“His intellect was as much of a curse as it was a blessing,” Ritchie says. “He was a deeply layered character.”

No word on the villain yet, but there will be a love interest based on Conan Doyle’s Irene Adler. Casting is expected to be finished in six or so weeks.

Ritchie already has been lucky to snag Robert Downey Jr., hot off of this summer’s�Iron Man�and�Tropic Thunder, as his lead.

I’ve always been a fan of the Sherlock Holmes character, movies and books. Guy Ritchie and Robert Downey Jr. working together? They are both so greatly suited for this project, lets just hope Downey Jr. can peg the Brittish accent.�

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