Ritchie’s also working on a rewrite/polish of Tony Peckham’s script, based on Wigram’s upcoming comicbook “Sherlock Holmes.” The Studio is eying a 2010 release date.

The exact plot of the film is being kept under wraps, but execs at Warners have made no secret of their goal to reinvent Holmes and sidekick Dr. John H. Watson for a new generation. Wigram has previously mentioned to Variety that the new Holmes would be much more adventuresome and would take advantage of his skills as a boxer and swordsman (which he possessed in the books).

Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories about Holmes were written in the late 19th century. Doyle’s stories emphasized Holmes’ intellectual brilliance and deductive reasoning skills and the detective has mostly been portrayed as more of a pipe-smoking thinking man in the more than 200 films and TV shows in which he has appeared.

For those of you who don’t know, Guy Ritchie is the director who is married to Madonna and is best known for his work on films such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, and Revolver. He is currently directing RocknRolla, for which he also wrote the screenplay, for Joel Silver’s Dark Castle Entertainment.