Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr says the upcoming sequel to Sherlock Holmes will improve on the original’s formula by setting it outside England.

Following the success of the film, there has been no doubt that there will be follow up to the 2009 film.

“Yes, I think we’ll be abroad,” he told MTV Movie News when asked whether there are plans to take Holmes’ show on the road.

Downey Jr then added, “A bit of Paris, a bit of Switzerland by the end, if I’m not mistaken.” The actor playing the British detective also affirmed that he will reprise his role in the sequel, saying “I’m going to do Sherlock 2; it was one of my favourite experiences to date.”

However, he is not sure if Rachel McAdams’ Irene Adler will also return to the second installment.”It’s hard to say. Because Irene Adler only appeared in one of the stories of Doyle’s reservoir of activities. But we’ll find out quickly,” he said.

About the possibility of making it into 3-D movie, Downey Jr said, “It’s hard to say.”

“Certainly, if you don’t do it as an option, then you don’t have that option. If the last six months have shown anything, it’s that audiences like options, and they will take advantage of them. And you’re leaving a bunch of dough on the table if you don’t shoot something in 3-D,” the actor said.

But the 45-year-old actor promised Sherlock Holmes 2 will improve on the original’s formula.

“There’s always (room for improvement); as a matter of fact, that’s the great thing about seeing a film in success,” he claimed.

“With Sherlock, we both had success and the audience responded to it, and we  saw room for improvement.”

Sherlock Holmes follows the adventure of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous character and his partner Dr John Watson in their adventure to bring down a new nemesis. The film earned more than $200 million in total.

That depressing news about Bond 23 means a few people now have spaces in their diaries. Not least among them is Sam Mendes, but he may not be idle for long. Production Weekly are calling him the “front-runner” to direct Oz the Great and Powerful. Robert Downey Jr is also apparently musing on whether to join the project as Oz himself (a whizz of a wiz, if ever a wiz there was).

The film is one of approximately 27 Oz projects currently bubbling away in Hollywood, but suddenly looks a bit nearer to fruition than the Todd McFarlane (and/or Josh Olson) one, the John Boorman one, the New Line one, or Wicked. Previously known as the slightly pithier Brick, Oz the Great and Powerful is an origin story, told from the wizard’s point of view. It details how, as a young man, the Wiz arrived in Oz as part of a travelling circus, and how he became the hapless charlatan behind a curtain that we know and love.

Disney is the studio that’s getting behind this one, keen to find their next Alice in Wonderland. Joe Roth (Alice, Hellboy) is producing, and Mitchell Kapner (The Whole Nine Yards, Romeo Must Die) has written the screenplay. Nothing there to exactly set the world alight, but the meticulous Mendes and the improv-happy Downey Jr are a curious combination which could make for interesting results. We’re keeping optimistic. After all, sometimes the dreams that you dream really do come true.

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