Law Leaks Sherlock Holmes 2 Launch

While at the 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic to accept the prestigious Festival President’s Award, Jude Law let it slip in an interview with Empire Online that the second Sherlock Holmes film will most likely start shooting much earlier than its reported December start date.

Although he had no other news regarding the film, Law said “It looks likely that we’re going to shoot the second Sherlock Holmes in October.”

If this is true, then Guy Ritchie and his writers on the project must not be too far off from a completed script, as well as casting announcements for the film. Latest rumor has it that Daniel Day- Lewis will fill the shoes of Holmes’ arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty, although other names being linked to the role include Sean Penn, Gary Oldman and Javier Bardem.

In other Jude Law news, he joined the cast of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo Cabret last week.  Law will play Hugo’s father and joins Asa Butterfield as Hugo Cabret, Chloe Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sasha Baron Cohen, Ray Winstone, Christopher Lee, Helen McCrory, Frances de la Tour and Richard Griffiths, which has begun production on June 29 in London.

After Law is finished on  Sherlock Holmes 2, he will be joining Steven Soderbergh’s latest, Contagion, which has been described as an international ensemble piece about the spread of an H1N1 virus.

With so much on his plate, expect to see a lot of Jude Law at the end of next year on theater screens.  Contagion is slated for theatrical release on October 21, 2011. Martin Scorsese’s Hugo Cabret is scheduled for release in 3D on December 9, 2011. The as yet untitled Sherlock Holmes sequel is expected in theaters one week later December 16, 2011.  Stay tuned here for more details on all three as they come in.