I don’t think I’ve written about this before, but I AM SO VERY, VERY EXCITED ABOUT SHERLOCK HOLMES!!! I mean, the most awesome detective played by one Robert Downey Jr.? And Jude Law playing Watson?! I LOVE IT ALREADY!!! I’ve been quietly waiting — and yet inwardly jumping around impatiently — for months for this. And it’s almost here! In the meantime, let us enjoy ourselves with these posters.

Movieland’s latest Holmes/Watson double-act will sleuth their way onto their screens this Christmas in Sherlock Holmes and, judging by these rather elegant new character stills, they’ll be cutting a dash while they do it.

Set against a fog-stained Westminster backdrop, the eye-catching posters show Robert Downey Jr.’s Holmes carrying on the debonair combination of style and six o’clock shadow familiar from the trailer (still no sign of a deerstalker), while Jude Law’s Watson has gone seriously Saville Row in an awesomely Victorian three-piece. The cane – traditionally Holmes’ weapon of choice – seems to fallen into the good doctor’s possession.

Holmes has traditionally spent a lot of time musing on cases from the velvetine comfort of 221B Baker Street, but Ritchie’s reboot gets him out and about in the dark alleyways of 19th century London, meeting people and generally beating the hell of them. The sleuth, as they say, is out there.

SHERLOCK HOLMES opens in theaters locally on January 8, 2010.

- Empireonline.com

Although… as excited as I am for this movie, I’m not sure I like the changes (which is most expected in reboots) quite yet. But of course, I’m sure Jude Law can pull it off. I guess I just have to let the changes slide. Hehe.

One thing, though: Holmes better play the violin.

Thanks to Warner Bros. for the news and high res photos!