DonnaK:  Now, since it’s in The Sun it’s impossible to know how much truth is in this, but the London paper reported today that Russell Crowe has all but taken the role of Dr. Watson in Guy Ritchie’s new Sherlock Holmes movie starring our beloved Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes:

RUSSELL CROWE must have a thing about English folk legends. He was due to play the Sheriff of Nottingham in a retelling of the Robin Hood story but that has been put on the back burner and now he’s going to be Dr Watson in GUY RITCHIE’s Sherlock Holmes movie.

With Guy’s eagerly-awaited gangster flick RocknRolla about to open and ROBERT DOWNEY JR already signed up as the legendary detective, it already has the buzz that goes with a classic.

A movie insider told me: “Russell wants the part, Guy wants Russell. All they’ve got left to do is dot the i’s and cross the t’s.”

Nay-sayers are already protesting, saying that Crowe might “overpower” RDJ’s star presence in the movie, which I personally think is hogwash. It would take a damn supernova to overpower RDJ in my little fan-girl opinion. Another faction is crying out that Crowe, as a leading man, would never take a “second fiddle” part, which again I think is hogwash. Crowe will take the part if it’s good and well-written - he’s proven that in the past already. Besides, we have no idea how this script is written - Watson could be a major force within it. So… hogwash I say!

Screw the nay-sayers. I think the team of Downey and Crowe with Ritchie at the helm is magic just waiting to happen. Now… what or who do I have to sacrifice to what god in order to make this happen?

*UPDATE*

Aww…it’s not going to happen.

It doesn’t take the world’s greatest detective to deduce that recent revelations about Russell Crowe playing Dr. Watson in Guy Ritchie’s upcoming Sherlock Holmes flick are nothing more than poppycock, but sometimes you really need to hear the facts from the horse’s mouth.

“I don’t have a Watson,” said Ritchie at the world premiere of his contemporary gangster flick RocknRolla. “Somebody just told me that I have Russell Crowe lined up but that’s news to me. I suspect that hasn’t happened and I’m still looking for my Watson.”

Damn.