Robert Downey Jr. Tapped For Guy Ritchie's "Sherlock Holmes" - Entertainment on The Huffington Post

Robert Downey Jr. Tapped For Guy Ritchie's "Sherlock Holmes" - Entertainment on The Huffington Post: "Robert Downey Jr. is trading Iron Man's metal suit for Sherlock Holmes' deerstalker hat.

Downey is following his action blockbuster 'Iron Man' with the title role in 'Sherlock Holmes,' a mystery drama based on Arthur Conan Doyle's detective and an upcoming comic-book about Holmes by Lionel Wigram, one of the movie's producers.

Guy Ritchie ('Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels') is directing the Warner Bros. film, which is set to begin shooting in October, the studio said Thursday."