Director Guy Ritchie has said that he directed the movie Sherlock Holmes as a way to get away from his stereotypical movies such as Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch and Rock ‘N’ Rolla.

Ritchie has really made a name for himself doing these types of films but Ritchie has said that he wanted to move away from being slot into doing just one type of movie.

Ritchie has also said that he wanted to do a movie for the cinema to prove he was a versatile filmmaker.

Ritchie said “I just felt that I wanted to move away from what it was that I’d been associated with and what I’d had enough of doing, to a degree. “Then ‘Sherlock Holmes’ landed on my desk and I felt as though I could help to reboot an otherwise rather dusty, iconic literary hero.”

Ritchie has also said that he ignores all the criticism he gets over not casting a British actor to play the role of the lead detective and choosing Robert Downey Jr instead.

Ritchie says “People have asked me, ‘Why didn’t you cast a Brit’?’ The whole point is that you employ actors to act and Robert Downey Jr. is dramatically talented. And, also, his English accent is better than mine.”