Downey Jr. discussing Pynchon adaptation

Robert Downey Jr. is in talks to take on the lead role in ‘Inherent Vice’.

The ‘Sherlock Holmes’ star is reportedly interested in starring in the project – which is adapted from the 2009 Thomas Pynchon novel - about a drug-addled detective who becomes immersed in a number of mysteries in Los Angeles in 1969 while the Manson Family murder trial looms large in the background.