EDDIE MURPHY PLAYING RICHARD PRYOR…
02.27.09
Dreamgirls and Kinsey director Bill Condon is trying to get his Richard Pryor biopic (a word which is pronounced BYE-o-pick, not by-OP-ick, you jackasses), Richard Pryor: Is it Something I Said? made at Fox Searchlight. He’s reportedly looking for a budget of about $25 million. The bad news is, Eddie Murphy is attached to star.
Look, I know Eddie Murphy’s been talking about Richard Pryor in his act for 20 years-plus, and his Richard Pryor bit in Raw was pretty good, but he’s been cinematic AIDS for at least five years now. You really want to entrust a picture about someone as legendary as Richard Pryor to the guy who last made Meet Dave, and then pulled a no-show at the premiere? Wow, I sounded pretty earnest for a second there, didn’t I. Hey, so uh, Richard Pryor, that’s pretty much the same is Dick Pryor, isn’t it? Hee hee! Dick prier!
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Shouldn’t they get a black guy?
I’ll help him get into character by lighting his head on fire.
Really.
No prob.
Pryor’s material is the only way Murphy can even be funny in a movie these days, but is that enough incentive to take the risk?
I’d have to say “fuck no.”
Eddie Murphy’s career has two settings; self-destruct and kid’s movies.
Oh wait, those are essentially the same.
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Nobody could get this guy on the phone?
Fuckin’ A.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c
I have a dick prior on my record. How the fuck was I supposed to know the, “May I take your order?” Didn’t mean, “Helicopter your dick at me at the drive through window?”
There was a time when Murphy was obviously the right person to pay Richard Pryor. Now, I wouldn’t cast him in any role more important that Billy Squire…. in a movie that doesn’t feature Billy Squire.
There was a time when Murphy was obviously the right person to play Richard Pryor. Now, I wouldn’t cast him in any role more important that Billy Squire…. in a movie that doesn’t feature Billy Squire.
I just hope Murphy is able to accurately portray this character when he dies.
Next up for Condon: a Bill Hicks BYE-oh-pik starring Denis Leary.
double post? DOUBLE POST???!!!!
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You know who would be really perfect for this role? Any black man not named Eddie Murphy. I mean, they all look alike anyway, and I’ll take my chances on a random passerby being a better actor.
How could they J? He’s phucking dead! Maybe you should try to reach him.
“Jamie Foxx starring in: Watch My Career Implode – The Eddie Murphy Story”
Peet, isn’t M.C. Hammer pretty hard up for cash right now?
Richard Pryor’s coke encased boogers were funnier than Eddie Murphy.
This is like Steve Martin playing Peter Sellers…uh what?
They did that already?
Which movie did he do, Strangelove or….Pink Panther?!?
HAHAHAHA…That must have been awful. Thankfully, they’ll never make a sequel to….Say what now?
Eddie Murphy shouldn’t be allowed to play a shit skid that Richard Pryor leaves in the toilet.
sorry “left”
::slips into trance, contacts bbq nip from pic::
He said and I quote, “I no pray funny brack man, but Peking Duck cameo no plobrem.”
Jesus Christ I’m gripping the keyboard pretty tight today.
I am sure by keyboard you mean something else.
Not sanity though.
I’d rather see Richard played by Rain Pryor.
Bill Cosby will have his Coke and a smile and will be shutting the fuck up, now.
And hey asshole, I always put the emphasis on BI.
*winks at Pauly, gives Chodin a tug*
I don’t know about you, but my girl wants to…
party all the time, party all the time, party all the tiiiiiime!
Vy am I drippings vis goo?
And by “party” I mean “do cocaine off toilet tank tops”.
I’m writing a movie script about a man who’s sexual confusion impairs his ability to visually differentiate men from women. Eddie Murphy will star. It’s called The Bi-Opic Man.
I wish my ex-girlfriend would play Richard Pryor.
By that, I mean light herself on fire.
New up, shitheads.