Sherlock Holmes 3 gets a promising update from Susan Downey

While a third movie was almost locked in, she's glad she didn't go through with making it.
Text: Alex Hopley
Published 2025-10-02

Sherlock Holmes 3 might not be as far away as we'd once feared, but even if producer Susan Downey gave us a glimmer of hope about a return to Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law's world of crime solving, it doesn't seem like we'll be seeing a third film anytime soon.

Speaking at a recent panel with Collider, Downey said that they came pretty close to making a third film at one point. "I am grateful we didn't make that version," she said. After that movie fell through, a pandemic happened and as it's increasingly hard to get hold of Robert Downey Jr., we've not had too much of an update since on Sherlock 3.

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"I would love to bring a third Sherlock to the world," Downey continued. "We've been playing with it for a long time. We've been talking about slightly different directions... I would just love to do it. It's hard, it's been a while. The bar is really high."

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