Ferrell's 'Sherlock' delayed by Guy Ritchie

Will Ferrell has admitted that Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes movie has sidelined his own comedy project involving the Baker Street sleuth.

Sacha Baron Cohen and Ferrell were signed up by Columbia Pictures to star as Holmes and his sidekick last year, but their spoof slant on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation will have to wait until after Ritchie's action-orientated opens for Warner Bros.

"I think everyone just wants to see...[Ritchie's Holmes is] probably going to be a hit franchise," Ferrell told HitFix. "Would it just inform the audience to allow for us to do a comedy version or would it feel like we're just trying to copy them, even though I think we wrote our script before they did?"

He added: "I just met with Sacha, like, three weeks ago. We're talking about it some more."

Judd Apatow is attached to produce the Cohen/Ferrell project, which Tropic Thunder's Etan Cohen is scripting.