Sherlock Holmes - First look at Mark Strong as the villainous Lord Blackwood

Here is a first look at Mark Strong as Lord Blackwood from Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes film. As you may well know Holmes is played by Robert Downey Jr and Watson by Jude Law (both are shown below).

Teaser Trailer had the photo along with some of Mark's words about the ending of the film.

There’s a fantastic sequence where we duel to the death on a half-built Tower Bridge. It’s a perfect way to end the movie, Robert and I hammering seven bells out of each other on top of this swinging bridge with Victorian London as a backdrop. It’s going to be amazing.

There’s a touch of Dracula about him (Lord Blackwood).

He needed to have an element of showmanship about him by virtue of the fact that he’s trying to persuade everyone around him that he’s so in league with the Devil that he’s able to conquer death. I just wanted to make him an equal adversary of Sherlock Holmes.”

As they say it does sounds an awful lot like the final showdown between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls.
I am still not sure about the look of the characters in this film. All looks a bit too scruffy, but then I don't know what context the photos are in relation to the plot. What do you make of Lord Blackwood and Mark Strong's description of his comeuppance? Are you excited about seeing this or do you think Guy Ritchie is the wrong director for this film?

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