Claim: Robert Downey Jr. was rejected for the film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
Evidence: Downey Jr. has also played the title character in Guy Ritchie 's Sherlock Holmes -LRB- 2009 -RRB- and its sequel -LRB- 2011 -RRB-.
Sherlock Holmes : A Game of Shadows is a 2011 British-American period action mystery film directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver , Lionel Wigram , Susan Downey and Dan Lin.