After breathing new life into Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes, it looks like Robert Downey Jr. will be bringing another famous detective from the past into the present. Downey is said to be partnering with Warner Brothers to launch a Perry Mason feature film. The Perry Mason novels by Earl Stanley Gardner were phenomenal successes in their day. Mason, a lawyer for the defense, took on seemingly impossible cases and used his crime-solving techniques to prevail. The novels were adapted into a hit TV series starring Raymond Burr that ran between 1957-1966. Burr revived the character in the 1980s and 1990s for a successful series of TV movies. For more click here