However, that doesn’t mean that there are no differences in how the characters were translated to the big screen, and here are the ones you will find. Related: Sherlock Holmes: Everything That's Not In Canon (But People Think Is)Īlthough the film is based on characters created by Conan Doyle (except one, but more on that later), it’s not an adaptation of any case or book from Sherlock Holmes’ universe.

as the title character and Jude Law as John Watson. Such is the case of Guy Ritchie’s 2009 film, simply titled Sherlock Holmes, with Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes became so popular (and continues to be) that he has been adapted to all types of media for over one hundred years. Times change and Sherlock and Watson have been adapted to more modern settings in recent years, such as BBC’s Sherlock and the series Elementary, but others have chosen to stay true to the original setting of the stories.

In total, there are four novels and 56 short stories telling a variety of cases solved by the Great Detective and his friend Dr. Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes first appeared in A Study in Scarlet, published in 1887, and became very popular thanks to a series of short stories published in The Strand Magazine, beginning in 1891 with “A Scandal in Bohemia”. Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes offered yet another version of the famous detective, and like many others, it took some creative liberties not only with the characters but with the story as well.

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