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- Referencenod to comics or other movies
- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
- Behind the scenesproduction trivia
- Behind the scenesA comic instead of a script
Producer Lionel Wigram didn't pitch the studio with a script. He wrote a 25-page comic with artist John Watkiss about a more bohemian, hard-fighting Holmes.
source ↗ - ReferenceBaritsu
Downey and director Guy Ritchie both do martial arts, and the film's fighting starts from the baritsu mentioned in "The Adventure of the Empty House", the story where Holmes returns after Reichenbach.
source ↗ - SetupMoriarty in the shadows
Professor Moriarty was written in just to set up a sequel. He shows up little and almost never with a face, and the last scene leaves the case reopened.
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- ReferenceTwo Doyle stories
The script has an original premise but borrows from "The Final Problem", where Moriarty first appears, and from "The Adventure of the Empty House".
source ↗ - Behind the scenesReal Romani musicians
Hans Zimmer traveled to France, Italy and Slovakia to listen to Romani players. He brought 13 of them, with their own violins and accordions, to a Vienna studio to record the score.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA smaller Adler
Rachel McAdams came back as Irene Adler in a small part. Producer Joel Silver said the plan was a "different kind of girl" in each film, and Noomi Rapace took the female lead.
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