The perpetual exclusive-havers at Latino Review report that the ever-fantastic Jared Harris, who Mad Men fans know as Lane Pryce and lame bloggers like myself who don't have time to watch Mad Men know as the drunk old sea captain in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, has been cast as Sherlock Holmes' nemesis Professor Moriarty in the upcoming sequel to Guy Ritchie's 2009 film. This comes right on the heels of the equally exciting news that Stephen Fry will be playing Holmes' older brother Mycroft. I'm not gonna lie, Harris never occurred to me for the part (I was plumping for Sir Ben Kingsley myself), and it certainly doesn't fit with the rumors that another A-lister would get the role (hence the rumblings about Daniel Day-Lewis and Brad Pitt), but Harris is a great actor and the occasional bit of counterintuitive casting ("Jude Law as Watson?!") didn't hurt the first film. The sequel is scheduled for release December 16, 2011.
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