News just in from my “London Agent”:

Richard will be playing the villain opposite Richard Roxburgh (from Moulin Rouge) in The Hound of the Baskervilles. He’ll be filming this in the U.K.

He’s then going to Cape Town and Paris to play the last English Governor and nemesis of Napoleon when he was incarcerated on St Helena. It’s a French film with French actors and directors. Richard apparently speaks in an English accent for scenes with Bonaparte.