For a movie with an incredibly small cast, Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity has had a tough time hanging onto actors. The latest to leave it behind, following the likes of Angelina Jolie, is Robert Downey Jr. who was set to play an astronaut who’s amongst a group decimated when their spaceship is hit by space junk, leaving a lone female to fight her way back to Earth.
However while he won’t appear opposite Sandra Bullock (who’s currently attached as the female lead) in Gravity, he is eyeing a new project, with THR reporting that he’s circling Fox’s How To Talk To Girls, an adaptation of a book by then nine-year old Alec Grevan, which revolves around advice on how to deal with the opposite sex. The book originated as a school project, but got picked up for publication and became a hit, launching Grevan onto the talk show circuit.
Little is known about the direction the film is taking, and indeed it appears that if Downey Jr. does come onboard (no deals have yet been signed), a new writer would be hired and the whole thing reconceived as a star vehicle for the Iron Man actor.