Ritchie sought to make Sherlock Holmes a "very contemporary film as far as the tone and texture", because it has been "a relatively long time since there's been a film version that people embraced".
Ritchie je želio da Sherlock Holmes bude "prilično suvremen film što se tona i teksture tiče", jer je "prošlo relativno puno vremena od posljednje općeprihvaćene filmske verzije."