Your First Glimpse At Robert Downey Jr.’s Little Tramp Detective, Sherlock Holmes!

Here we have your first look at Robert Downey Jr. in Guy Ritchie’s SherlocknRolla take on Sir Conan Doyle’s classic creation. The director has apparently abandoned Holmes’s iconic deerstalker cap, cloak, and pipe in favour of a bowler hat, stripey vest, and gigantic Starbucks beverage. (”No foam skim latte, my dear Watson!”)

It’s a look that—stop us if we’re way off here—is virtually indistinguishable from the one he wore in Chaplin. Like, right down to the bunched up vest and baggy tweed trousers? Hopefully Downey’s considerable gifts will help us shake the looming expectation that at any given moment, the detective might sit down to a hearty meal of a leather boot before heading into the London fog to solve The Problem of the One-Legged Beefeater.

[Photo credit: Bauer Griffin]

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