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"Sherlock Holmes producer Lionel Wigram has revealed that he pitched the movie to Warner Bros in the form of a comic. Wigram said that he had a comic-style pamphlet made in order to convince the studio to make the film. &amp;quot;Basically, I saw a quite different version [of Sherlock Holmes] in my head than I had ever seen in any movie,&amp;quot; he told CBR. &amp;quot;I thought, how do I convey that to Warner Bros in a way that they&amp;#039;ll get it, and understand that Holmes isn&amp;#039;t that stuffy guy with a deerstalker [hat] and a pipe? If you go back to the original Conan Doyle stories, he&amp;#039;s a much more modern, interesting and contemporary character than he is in a lot of the later movies. &amp;quot;I thought the best way to do that was to put it in a presentation, which I sort of called a comic book. I wrote the story, and then I had this amazing artist called John Watkiss - draw these panels - and he did about 30 panels. &amp;quot;[I] put it together in a beautiful pamphlet, I gave it to Warner Bros and that&amp;#039;s sort of what sold them on it. [Holmes] had stubble, a gun in one hand, a sword in the other. They said, &amp;#039;OK, we get it - that&amp;#039;s the Sherlock Holmes we want to see&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Sherlock Holmes is released in cinemas on Christmas Day. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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