Rachel McAdams (Wedding Crashers) has been cast as the leading lady in the upcoming updated big-screen adaptation of Sherlock Holmes by Warner Bros.

She will, as expected, play the legendary fictional detective’s love interest, Irene Adler, a character who appeared in only one story – “A Scandal in Bohemia”.

McAdams joins Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Mark Strong on the Guy Ritchie helmed film that begins shooting next month in UK.