History Trivia / SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows

* DevelopmentHell: The third film has been long delayed due to a variety of reasons including but not limited to: CreativeDifferences, Downey and Law's conflicting schedules with their other franchise commitments, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Production is tentatively supposed to start in 2022, eleven years after this film's release.

* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/JaredHarris as Moriarty, in a way. Since, technically, he appeared always in shadow in the first movie and was played by Ed Tolputt in an uncredited role. In subsequent TV airings of the first film, Harris was brought in to re-dub Tolputt's lines to give it continuity with the second film.

* FanNickname: Creator/StephenFry's version of Mycroft Holmes quickly took on the nickname "Frycroft".

* TheOtherDarrin: Jared Harris as Moriarty, in a way. Since, technically, he appeared always in shadow in the first movie and was played by Ed Tolputt in an uncredited role. In subsequent TV airings of the first film, Creator/JaredHarris was brought in to re-dub Tolputt's lines to give it continuity with the second film.

* DeletedScene: The part in the opening with the bomb attack in the city of Strasbourg, UsefulNotes/{{France}} (which was filmed there). More footage has been filmed than the ten seconds that made it to the screen, on the whole square around the cathedral which was redecorated in UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany fashion (Creator/RobertDowneyJr and Creator/JudeLaw were even confirmed to be present, causing crowds to gather around the set). The very short scene focuses only the explosion without either Holmes or Watson appearing onscreen.

* DeletedScene: The part in the opening with the bomb attack in the city of Strasbourg, UsefulNotes/{{France}} (which was filmed there). More footage has been filmed than the ten seconds that made it to the screen, on the whole square around the cathedral which was redecorated in UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany fashion (Creator/RobertDowneyJr and Creator/JudeLaw were even confirmed to be present). The very short scene focuses only the explosion without either Holmes or Watson appearing onscreen.

* DeletedScene: The part in the opening with the bomb attack in the city of Strasbourg, UsefulNotes/{{France}} (which was filmed there). More footage has been filmed than the ten seconds that made it to the screen, on the whole square around the cathedral (Creator/RobertDowneyJr and Creator/JudeLaw were even confirmed to be present), The very short scene focuses only the explosion without either Holmes or Watson appearing.

* DeletedScene: The part in the opening with the bomb attack in the city of Strasbourg, UsefulNotes/{{France}} (which was filmed there). More footage has been filmed than the ten seconds that made it to the screen, on the whole square around the cathedral (Creator/RobertDowneyJr and Creator/JudeLaw were even confirmed to be present), The very short scene focuses only the explosion without either Downey Jr. and Law appearing.

* DeletedScene: The part in the opening with the bomb attack in the city of Strasbourg, UsefulNotes/{{France}} (which was filmed there). More footage has been filmed than the ten seconds that made it to the screen, on the whole square around the cathedral (Creator/RobertDowneyJr and Creator/JudeLaw were even confirmed to be present), the scene focuss only the explosion without either Downey Jr. and Law appearing.

* DeletedScene: The part in the opening with the bomb attack in the city of Strasbourg, UsefulNotes/{{France}} (which was filmed there). More footage has been filmed than the ten seconds that made it to the screen, on the whole square around the cathedral, focusing only the explosion.

* DeletedScene: The part in the opening with the bomb attack in the city of Strasbourg (which was filmed there). More footage has been filmed than the ten seconds that made it to the screen, on the whole square around the cathedral, focusing only the explosion.

* TheOtherDarrin: Jared Harris as Moriarty, in a way. Since, technically, he appeared always in shadow in the first movie and was played by Ed Tolputt in an uncredited role. In subsequent TV airings of the first film, Jared Harris was brought in to re-dub Tolputt's lines to give it continuity with the second film.

* No deliberate connection is made, but Moriarty's plot here is similar to the scheme used by another Moriarty (played by Creator/RichardRoxburgh) in ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', where Moriarty's plan to trigger war and sell weapons also saw him bring the titular team together so that he could harness their abilities- invisible men, Captain Nemo's technology, the Hyde serum, and vampire blood samples- and sell them as well as more conventional guns.

-->"When Austria's crown prince is found dead, evidence seems to point to suicide. However, detective Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) deduces that the prince was murdered and that the crime is but a piece of a puzzle designed by an evil genius named Moriarty (Jared Harris). Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson (Jude Law), who are accompanied by a Gypsy (Noomi Rapace) whose life Holmes saved, chase Moriarty across Europe in the hope that they can thwart his plot before it can come to fruition."

** Juliette Binoche, Creator/MarionCotillard, Creator/PenelopeCruz, Cécile De France, Creator/EvaGreen, Virginie Ledoyen, Creator/SophieMarceau and Creator/AudreyTautou were considered to play Sim.

* FakeNationality: Creator/NoomiRapace, a Swedish actress, plays Simza, a French gypsy, though Rapace might have some Roma ancestry.
** In her defense, her father was Spanish, and she suspect he may have been of Romani descent.

* TheOtherDarrin: Jared Harris as Moriarty, in a way. Since, technically, he appeared always in shadow in the first movie and was played by Ed Tolputt in an uncredited role. In subsequent TV airings of the first film, as Jared Harris was brought in to re-dub Tolputt's lines to give it continuity with the second film.

* No deliberate connection is made, but Moriarty's plot here is similar to the scheme used by another Moriarty (played by Creator/RichardRoxburgh) in Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen, where Moriarty's plan to trigger war and sell weapons also saw him bring the titular team together so that he could harness their abilities- invisible men, Captain Nemo's technology, the Hyde serum, and vampire blood samples- and sell them as well as more conventional guns.

** Juliette Binoche, Creator/MarionCotillard, Creator/PenelopeCruz, Cécile De France, Creator/EvaGreen, Virginie Ledoyen, Sophie Marceau and Creator/AudreyTautou were considered to play Sim.

** In her defense, her father was Spanish, and she suspect her father may have been of Romani descent.

** Juliette Binoche, Creator/MarionCotillard, Creator/PenelopeCruz, Cécile De France, Creator/EvaGreen, Virginie Ledoyen, Sophie Marceau and Creator/AudreyTautou were considered to play Sim.

** Creator/JavierBardem, Creator/DanielDayLewis, Creator/GaryOldman, Gary Oldman and Creator/SeanPenn were considered to play Moriarty.

** Juliette Binoche, Creator/MarionCotillard, Creator/PenélopeCruz, Cécile De France, Creator/EvaGreen, Virginie Ledoyen, Sophie Marceau and Creator/AudreyTautou were considered to play Sim.