Odds are, given the caliber of talent and the network in question, this new Perry Mason series would be less crime procedural and closer in tone to the pulp fiction of the original Gardner novels where, the eccentric Mason would sometimes use questionable tactics to get around the police for the greater good. Sound familiar? The role seems tailor-made for Downey: after playing lawyers in The Judge and on Ally McBeal, and detectives in both Sherlock Holmes and the pulpier Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Singing Detective, he would now get the chance to do both. (His uncanny resemblance to original Mason actor Raymond Burr certainly doesn’t hurt.)