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Trailer trash: Jason Solomons on Paddy Considine, Sherlock Holmes and Beyonce

Paddy's no dinosaur Paddy Considine is stretching out his talents. After winning a Bafta for his short film Dog Altogether, starring Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman, he is planning to turn it into a feature film. Ahead of a career retrospective at Bristol's Encounters festival, he told me: 'I do hope to get this done in the New Year. It's called Tyrannosaur and it's based on taking those two characters from Dog Altogether a bit further. Where Dog ends, we carry on.' The film will be that mix of violence and grim humour that Considine has honed in working with Shane Meadows and the pair are continuing with their long-cherished 'King of the Gypsies' project, about Bartley Gorman, a bare-knuckle fighter. 'We've done quite a bit of shaping on the script, but it's slowed down a bit: Shane's just had a baby, so it's one baby at a time at the moment.' A sharper Sherlock Robert Downey Jr has the title role in Sherlock Holmes, currently being filmed by Guy Ritchie in London, but I'm told there isn't a deerstalker in sight. Mark Strong, the British actor playing Lord Blackwood, says Downey plays Sherlock as a flamboyant dresser, athletic and trained in martial arts. Jude Law, as Watson, 'is not the bumbling fool... but a sharp ex-army man'. Strong, who appears opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Ridley Scott's Body of Lies from Friday, is representing several Conan Doyle villains in this film, which blends a few Holmes stories together. 'Lord Blackwood is an amalgam,' he tells me. 'He's the chief bad guy - a satanist. I do lots of incanting over virgins.' Wonder lust Forgive my red-blooded excitement, but if there's one film superhero I'm looking forward to it's Beyoncé Knowles as Wonder Woman. Forget Superman, Spider-Man, Christian Bale in another Batman, and the weird prospect of Kenneth Branagh directing Thor. Buoyant on post-Barack bliss, Beyoncé said last week: 'A black Wonder Woman would be a powerful thing. It's time for that, right?' She said she'd met with DC Comics and Warner Brothers to express her ideas. Trash has never recovered from Linda Carter's portrayal back in his youth, but Beyoncé in a similar outfit would be a marvel. (read more)