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Posted by Ross Miller

Matt here... welcoming OWF’s newest recruit Ross Miller to the site. He is going to help me out with updating the latest movie news stories. Ya know, I need to find time to actually watch the movies I’m talking about!

Robert Downey Jr. was accidentally punched and knocked out cold by his seven foot co-star Robert Maille during the filming of SHERLOCK HOLMES reports The Sun.

The lead star playing the normally suave and gentlemen detective, was quickly revived by medics and is said to be fine.

Downey “went flying and was out cold…he didn’t want to go to hospital and kept trying to get up” says a source on the set in Kent, England. Revived by medics, Downey needed stitches inside his mouth.

On the one hand it’s kind of unusual to find out that on the set of a SHERLOCK HOLMES movie that the lead actor gets knocked out; but as any HOLMES historians (there’s gotta’ be some of them out there) will tell you… the character originally did martial arts, a special kind called Bartitsu. It looks like Ritchie has very much included that early aspect in his telling as first hinted.

Oh, and to add to the mayhem of the star being knocked unconscious it appears that a tanker making a delivery burst into flames and the set had to be closed down for a couple of hours. I certainly hope this isn’t signs of things to come!

via - dark horizons

categories - Guy-Ritchie, Movie News, Robert-Downey-Jr, Sherlock Holmes

Further Reading

• Has SHERLOCK HOLMES ever looked so cool?

• Who’s helping out Downey Jr. & Law in SHERLOCK HOLMES?

• Guy Ritchie’s SHERLOCK HOLMES is made out of IRON?

• Martial arts and Russell Crowe in Sherlock Holmes?

• First time we’ve ever seen SHERLOCK HOLMES shirtless?

1 Comment »

1. Hey, awesome. Nice to see Ross over here. As a fellow colleague, I’m sure he’ll fit in nicely at OwF.

   Look forward to seeing more.
   Cheers.

   Comment by Andrew James | December 3, 2008

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