Robert Downey, Jr. to play Perry Mason?

[Graybeard]

Downey and his producer, wife Susan, are eying a third film franchise role to go along with his Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes.

Unlike the popular Raymond Burr TV series the Downey film would be set in the L.A. of the 1930s.

[meegbear]

1. He'll have to how to breathe ...

watch any episode and notice how before he speaks, Perry will inhale deeply, they begin talking.

[Graybeard]

5. Raymond Burr did do that.

Take a deep breath every time before he started talking. Actors have mannerisms and tics that you can see them doing in their films.

Spencer Tracy, if he had to walk from one place on the set to another, always did it looking down at the floor. (To see the "spot" mark where he was supposed to stop?)

[dimbear]

2. To be realistic, Downey will have to drive like a maniac.

In the early Erle Stanley Gardner Perry Masons, Perry was always tooling around flagrantly breaking the traffic laws.

Gardner got so many complaints from law enforcement that he had Perry reform.

[Bucky]

3. Well, that explains how he ended up in that wheelchair

[csziggy]

4. The original Perry Mason movies were in the 1930s

I've caught a few of them on TMC. Someday I'd like to catch them all. They are entertaining, a little similar to the Thin Man without the chemistry between the leading stars.