<P> Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 British - American neo-noir mystery period action film based on the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Susan Downey and Dan Lin . The screenplay , by Michael Robert Johnson , Anthony Peckham and Simon Kinberg , was developed from a story by Wigram and Johnson . Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law portray Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson respectively . In the film , set in 1890 , eccentric detective Holmes and his companion Watson are hired by a secret society to foil a mysticist 's plot to expand the British Empire by seemingly supernatural means . Rachel McAdams stars as their former adversary Irene Adler and Mark Strong portrays villain Lord Henry Blackwood . </P>
<P> Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 British - American neo-noir mystery period action film based on the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Susan Downey and Dan Lin . The screenplay , by Michael Robert Johnson , Anthony Peckham and Simon Kinberg , was developed from a story by Wigram and Johnson . Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law portray Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson respectively . In the film , set in 1890 , eccentric detective Holmes and his companion Watson are hired by a secret society to foil a mysticist 's plot to expand the British Empire by seemingly supernatural means . Rachel McAdams stars as their former adversary Irene Adler and Mark Strong portrays villain Lord Henry Blackwood . </P>
who plays the bad guy in sherlock holmes
who plays the bad guy in sherlock holmes
Irene Adler and Mark Strong portrays villain Lord Henry Blackwood
Irene Adler and Mark Strong portrays villain Lord Henry Blackwood