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Downey gets career "upper"
HOLLYWOOD - Robert Downey Jr. is making yet another acting comeback, according to Variety. The drug-troubled actor, while still on probation for past mishaps, is scheduled to take the lead role in Six Bullets From Now, a film about a major jewelry heist based on actual events. Stephen T Kay (Get Carter) will direct the $20 million film about the 1972 $10 million robbery of New York's Pierre Hotel, and Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Black Hawk Down) will produce it.
Production is scheduled to begin this spring in Montreal and New York.
Downey's last film project was Wonder Boys in 2000. Following that, he appeared as attorney Larry Paul on the TV show Ally McBeal, a role for which he won a best supporting actor Golden Globe. Unfortunately, the role was cut short last year when he once again found himself in trouble for drug abuse.