Richard Pryor biopic is Coming with Eddie Murphy attached - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 02-27-2009, 11:01 AM

Writer/director Bill Condon, who just completed his debut run as producer of the 2009 Academy Awards, is shopping his script Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said? to the studio subsidiaries and independent distributors around town. Eddie Murphy is attached to star. Sources tell EW.com that Fox Searchlight, the studio behind this year's big Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire, is interested in the film. The studio, which declined comment, has a relationship with Condon, having partnered with the director on his 2004 feature Kinsey. Condon, who most recently wrote and directed Dreamgirls, had the Pryor biopic set up at The Weinstein Company but was able to pull it out when the indie outfit put it into turnaround. He initially was hoping to secure $30 million to produce the film, but that number, sources say, has dropped down to $25 million. Murphy, who has featured Pryor impersonations in his act as far back as the 1987 concert movie Raw, seems a likely choice for this role.

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/...ondon-sho.html

isiahthomas · 03-28-2009, 12:45 PM

I read about this at Wu Tang Clan's website also. This should be a good movie if it gets made. Eddie Murphy is the best person to play Richard Pryor since Richard was Eddie's idol and he does good Richard impersonations. Plus Eddie featured Richard in his Harlem Nights movie so you can tell Eddie loved Richard.

02-27-2009, 11:01 AM	#1
Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,107	Richard Pryor biopic is Coming with Eddie Murphy attached Writer/director Bill Condon, who just completed his debut run as producer of the 2009 Academy Awards, is shopping his script Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said? to the studio subsidiaries and independent distributors around town. Eddie Murphy is attached to star. Sources tell EW.com that Fox Searchlight, the studio behind this year's big Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire, is interested in the film. The studio, which declined comment, has a relationship with Condon, having partnered with the director on his 2004 feature Kinsey. Condon, who most recently wrote and directed Dreamgirls, had the Pryor biopic set up at The Weinstein Company but was able to pull it out when the indie outfit put it into turnaround. He initially was hoping to secure $30 million to produce the film, but that number, sources say, has dropped down to $25 million. Murphy, who has featured Pryor impersonations in his act as far back as the 1987 concert movie Raw, seems a likely choice for this role. http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/...ondon-sho.html
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03-28-2009, 12:45 PM	#2
isiahthomas Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Aug 20, 2002 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 10,704	I read about this at Wu Tang Clan's website also. This should be a good movie if it gets made. Eddie Murphy is the best person to play Richard Pryor since Richard was Eddie's idol and he does good Richard impersonations. Plus Eddie featured Richard in his Harlem Nights movie so you can tell Eddie loved Richard.