Set in 1891, eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson is hired by a secret society to foil a mysticist's plot to expand the British Empire by seemingly supernatural means. Robert Downey Jr. leads, opposite Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Eddie Marsan, and Kelly Reilly. Guy Ritchie directs from the screenplay by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham, and Simon Kinberg; Screen Story by Lionel Wigram and Johnson; Holmes and Watson was created by the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and appeared in his stories and novels. Produced by Joel Silver, Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan Lin; Executive Producers: Michael Tadross and Bruce Berman. a Silver Pictures/Wigram production for Warner Bros. Pictures, with Village Roadshow Pictures, in association with Internationale Filmproduktion Blackbird Zweite.