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Nic Pizzolatto and Robert Downey Jr are in talks for a drama project, with the True Detective creator attached to write and the Iron Man actor attached to star, sources tell Variety. HBO and reps for both Pizzolatto and Downey Jr declined to comment. Plot details are scarce, but insiders say the project is based on Downey Jr’s Perry Mason reboot, which he had been developing as a feature film at Warner Bros for several years. Pizzolatto, Downey Jr, and his producing partner and wife, Susan Downey, of Team Downey will serve as executive producers. Sources indicate the project will be a series, rather than a TV film, and that the project has been gestating at HBO since as early as May. It would mark Downey Jr’s first starring role on television, aside from his Ally McBeal stint in the early 2000s, before he resurged to became a box office superstar. It would also be his first television role in nearly 15 years. Downey Jr has wanted to do some sort of Perry Mason project for some time, having originally set it up at Warner Bros as a film back in 2011. The film never found its footing and after his other lawyer-driven film, The Judge, had mixed results at the box office, the studio and Team Downey thought that television was a better platform for it. Perry Mason is a fictional criminal defence attorney who is the main character in works of detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. The best-known TV adaptation was CBS’ Perry Mason, starring Raymond Burr, which ran from 1957 to 1966. With a third season of True Detective still in flux, this potential series keeps Pizzolatto in the HBO fold with a new high-profile project, given his recent overall deal with the premium cabler, which lasts through 2018. For Downey Jr, the project not only marks his big foray into TV, but also as a TV producer. The Iron Man star put a drama into development with Showtime in 2014, though it never came to fruition. 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declined to comment.</p><p>Plot details are scarce, but insiders say the project is based on Downey Jr’s Perry Mason reboot, which he had been developing as a feature film at Warner Bros for several years. Pizzolatto, Downey Jr, and his producing partner and wife, Susan Downey, of Team Downey will serve as executive producers.</p><p>Sources indicate the project will be a series, rather than a TV film, and that the project has been gestating at HBO since as early as May.</p><p>It would mark Downey Jr’s first starring role on television, aside from his Ally McBeal stint in the early 2000s, before he resurged to became a box office superstar. It would also be his first television role in nearly 15 years.</p><p>Downey Jr has wanted to do some sort of Perry Mason project for some time, having originally set it up at Warner Bros as a film back in 2011. The film never found its footing and after his other lawyer-driven film, The Judge, had mixed results at the box office, the studio and Team Downey thought that television was a better platform for it. </p><p>Perry Mason is a fictional criminal defence attorney who is the main character in works of detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. The best-known TV adaptation was CBS’ Perry Mason, starring Raymond Burr, which ran from 1957 to 1966.</p><p>With a third season of True Detective still in flux, this potential series keeps Pizzolatto in the HBO fold with a new high-profile project, given his recent overall deal with the premium cabler, which lasts through 2018.</p><p>For Downey Jr, the project not only marks his big foray into TV, but also as a TV producer. The Iron Man star put a drama into development with Showtime in 2014, though it never came to fruition.</p><p>Both Downey Jr and Pizzolatto are repped by CAA. Pizzolatto is also repped by Anonymous Content. 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