Stephen Fry Joins HOLMES 2 Cast

THR is reporting of actor Stephen Fry’s latest role:

Stephen Fry is the latest to jump aboard SHERLOCK HOLMES 2, joining the Warner Bros. sequel as Holmes’ brother, Mycroft Holmes.

The British actor-comedian, perhaps best known in America for his recurring role on TV’s “Bones” and for his BBC miniseries “Stephen Fry in America,” revealed the casting news on a BBC radio show.

I’m more particularly fond of Fry’s role of Jeeves, butler and valet to Hugh Laurie’s (House) daft Bertie Wooster in the ITV series Jeeves and Wooster.

Anyway, THR goes on to say:

Fry’s boarding follows the casting of Noomi Rapace, the Swedish star of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, who two weeks ago signed on as the female lead in the movie, which reunites most of the team from the original: Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. Watson. Guy Ritchie is back as director while Joel Silver, Susan Downey, Lionel Wigram and Dan Lin return as producers.

In the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mycroft Holmes is the famous detective’s more intelligent older brother, who has a top but mysterious position in the British government, but who also happens to be lazier than Sherlock Holmes. Sources say the character in the sequel’s script is described as “an agoraphobic oddball.”

HOLMES 2 is scheduled to be released December 16, 2011. Btw, Fry has two absolutely funny Twitter pages that are always good for a laugh – the official one here and the other as “Stephen’s poor, downtrodden wife & mother of his five or six kids, Mrs. Stephen Fry, here.

What the heck,  I couldn’t resist adding one more video of Fry. Enjoy.