THR reports Daniels is in talks to tackle an untitled biopic of late comedian Richard Pryor, and has assembled a wide-ranging shortlist for the lead role.Seasoned comedians Marlon Wayans and Eddie Murphy are in contention to play Pryor, and so is rising-star-of-the-moment Michael B Jordan, the trade reports Murphy and Wayans have both had[...]
It seemed like a lot of my colleagues in the blogosphere were at least curious if not flat-out enthusiastic.And apparently it's this that's convinced Paramount to press ahead with development on a fourth Beverly Hills Cop feature film.Again.According to Deadline, Eddie Murphy is already set to reprise the role of Axel Foley for this fourth[...]
Barry Sonnenfeld is directing, Shawn Ryan wrote the script and is producing, and Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold are reprising their roles alongside Brandon T Jackson as the new lead, Aaron Foley, son of Axel.I think that the showmakers have got an awful lot on their side with this one.Here are a couple of set[...]
Originally, Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger were cast as the twins of the title, now Eddie Murphy is to be added into the mix as their long-list third brother.Okay, maybe it's gone up two or three whole levels of preposterous.A little while ago, Ivan Reitman said that the film was, so far, little more than[...]
While we've been told that Eddie Murphy will be popping up in several episodes of the first season at least, and he's definitely keeping his hand in behind the scenes, the new Beverly Hills Cop TV show is to be a "next generation" affair, focused largely on the son of Axel Foley.Humor Mill (via Coming[...]
and presumably his buddy.Marking this out as a "true sequel" and not just a do-over, Eddie Murphy is to reprise the role of Foley "in the pilot and possibly a few special episodes throughout the first season." Apparently Axel Foley will now be the chief of police in Detroit.Vulture are following up on a Rolling[...]
As per some twenty-odd years of jokes, the film is going to be called Triplets.The Hollywood Reporter say that the big idea here is for the third, long-lost brother to be played by Eddie Murphy How this will be explained, or more importantly, how this will be leveraged for laughs remains to be seen but[...]
As many had expected, Eddie Murphy has decided to step down as host of next year's Academy Awards This follows the resignation yesterday of his friend and collaborator Brett Ratner.The beginnings of this unraveling, you probably know, was a casually homophobic comment by Ratner during a Tower Heist Q&A last week He used the word[...]
Failing that, however, you can always get an old co-star to give you some extremely unhelpful advice in the name of comedy, and that's just exactly what Eddie Murphy has on his side Take it away, Steve Martin.
Hi Eddie,I heard you're hosting this year's Oscars First of all, CONGRATS Even though you didn't ask for[...]
no, it's Eddie Murphy in the guise of a CGI version of Hong Kong Phooey, the latest cartoon character to get the star treatment as a way of squeezing the nostalgia dollar for all its worth.Alcon Entertainment are producing a live-action/animation film based on the short-lived Hanna-Barbera cartoon series and have just signed the comedian[...]
Here are the poster and first trailer for Brett Ratner's Tower Heist. I read a few drafts of the screenplay and, well, none of them were really quite right, but there were some fun situations and a lot of business that should come of well in the hands of a talented cast – which, give […]
