Stephen Fry is Mycroft!! :D

I have to say, this is awesome casting. Directed by Guy Ritchie and lead by Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law, adding the genius of Stephen Fry makes Sherlock Holmes 2 the movie with the amazing ensemble. Fry will be playing Mycroft, Sherlock's older brother.

Here's the announcement by Fry himself:

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 lifetime thrill.

Mycroft Holmes is said to possess deductive powers exceeding even those of Sherlock. However, he does not care enough to do all the physical stuff in confronting the criminals, therefore he's not as effective a detective as the younger Holmes. Sherlock would come to Mycroft when he's unable to find the answers.

And I have to agree with my Twitter friends, WE WANT HUGH LAURIE AS MORIARTY!!