According to WENN, Brad Pitt has come to Guy Ritchie’s rescue by agreeing to film additional scenes for his troubled movie Sherlock Holmes.

Studio executives were said to have been disappointed with a rough cut of the upcoming film, ordering the director to re-work it to include the famed sleuth’s arch rival, Professor James Moriarty.

Ritchie then turned to his pal Pitt, the star of his 2000 movie Snatch, who reportedly agreed to step in at the last minute to play Holmes’ evil nemesis.

The film’s release has now been pushed back to the end of this year and Pitt is due to start shooting this week.

A source – “It’s a huge coup to have Brad joining the cast. He has worked for Guy before and said if he could, he would do anything to help out. It was an oversight in the film not to make a bigger deal about Moriarty. He is mentioned as Holmes’ arch enemy, but the bosses wanted Guy to make more of him.

“Jude Law (who plays Dr Watson) and Robert Downey Jr. (Holmes) have already shot their scenes. But now that 10 extra days have been added to shoot the new ones, they may be called back for a day or two.

“Brad is expected to be filming all over London. Cliveden House has been earmarked as a location for Moriarty’s home… It’s going to be a full-on couple of days, but now the release date has been pushed back they might just do it in time.”

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