Badassery personified.

Thanks to Filmdrunk  we get the news that Stephen Fry will be playing Sherlock Holmes (possibly) smarter brother Mycroft in the next Robert Downey Jr. starring sequel.

Stephen Fry:  “I’m playing Mycroft in the sequel to the Sherlock Holmes film Guy Ritchie directed with Robert Downey Jr., and that sort of part is fun, but just once in a while to play a genuine all round sort of lead figure with complexity and tragedy and wit and all the sort of things that Oscar [Wilde] had was a once-in-a-lifeftime thrill.”

This is perfect casting in my opinion.  Snarky smartass, meet more even tempered snarky smartass.  Also, Sherlock your brother already knocked boots with your boyfriend:

Now who will be Prof. M?    Thoughts?