Is it true that theres going to be a new Holmes movie starring Alan Rickman as Holmes, Gabriel Byrne as Watson and Catherine Zeta-Jones as the love interest?
No. Although the rumour was persistent enough to generate a brief magazine article (accompanied by an amusing caricature of Rickman as Holmes), it appears to be completely false. When one of my personal friends asked Rickman about it backstage after a performance of PRIVATE LIVES in London, he said without hesitation that he had never heard of this film project, much less been asked to play Holmes in it.
