Robert Downey Jr. eyed for Sherlock Holmes?

By Jim Vejvoda,IGN
June 11,2008-With Iron Man still raking it in at the box office, the film's star, Robert Downey Jr., has gone from being box office poison a few years ago to a bonafide draw. Downey is reportedly being eyed for a number of high-profile projects now in the works.

According to Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider Blog, Downey is not only being wooed to portray Playboy founder Hugh Hefner in a Brett Ratner-directed biopic, but also for Gary Ross' Dog Years and Fox's detective pic Travis McGee.

But the most genre-friendly project that Downey is said to be looking at is the Guy Ritchie-directed Sherlock Holmes film set up at Warner Bros. EW didn't specify whether Downey was up for the title role or perhaps his partner Dr. Watson or adversary Professor Moriarty. Given that he can now open a movie in his own right, it would seem likely that Downey is mulling the role of the world's greatest detective.

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