NEW POSTERS FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES : A GAME OF SHADOWS

 

IT'S well known by now that the second Sherlock Holmes movie will see the sleuth taking on his greatest nemesis, Professor James Moriarty.

Numerous thespians have portrayed the criminal mastermind in film, television and theatre over the decades. In Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, it's British character actor Jared Harris who steps into the role.

Harris has appeared in Ocean's Twelve, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Mad Men and Fringe.

Six new character posters issued for director Guy Ritchie's upcoming Sherlock movie, released in Australia on January 5th 2012, give us a good look at Harris's version of the iconic baddie. We also see co-star Noomi Rapace, from the Millennium trilogy, wielding a mean set of knives in her role as a Gypsy called Sim(za).

Official synopsis

Robert Downey Jr reprises his role as the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, and Jude Law returns as his formidable colleague Dr Watson, in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room...until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large - Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris) - and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective.
When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), points to suicide. But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder - a murder that is only one piece of a larger and much more portentous puzzle, designed by one Professor Moriarty.
Mixing business with pleasure, Holmes tracks the clues to an underground gentlemen's club, where he and his brother Mycroft Holmes (Stephen Fry) are toasting Dr Watson on his last night of bachelorhood. It is there that Holmes encounters Sim (Noomi Rapace), a Gypsy fortune-teller, who sees more than she is telling and whose unwitting involvement in the prince's murder makes her the killer's next target. Holmes barely manages to save her life and, in return, she reluctantly agrees to help him.
The investigation becomes ever more dangerous as it leads Holmes, Watson and Sim across the continent, from England to France to Germany and finally to Switzerland. But the cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead as he spins a web of death and destruction - all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will change the course of history.