Sherlock Holmes 3: Law Issues Update

Actor Jude Law tells Empire that he has already had a couple of meetings with the suits about Sherlock Holmes 3:

"I hate celebrating anything I've done, but I'm so proud of those films. I think it was Joel Silver who said, 'Take it out of that dusty room and put it on the street'. I think Warners want it, and there's a lot of want from us as a team. We want it to be better than the other two. We want to make sure it's smarter and cleverer, but in the same realm."

Scheduling is the main reason for the hold up on 3. Law, star Robert Downey Jr., and director Guy Ritchie are all busy doing other films:

"It's a slow process. We're all busy. So getting us together to try to nail that has taken a little bit longer than we had hoped."

At last report, "Iron Man 3" scribe Drew Pearce has been charged to write the script.

The first "Sherlock Holmes" was released in 2009 and grossed $524 million globally. on a $90 million budget. The sequel, called "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows," followed in 2011 and grossed $544 million at the worldwide box-office