After completing his debut run as producer of the 2009 Academy Awards, writer and director Bill Condon is 
shopping his script Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said? to the studios with Eddie Murphy attached to star.
Entertainment Weekly reports Fox Searchlight, the studio behind this year’s big Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire, is attracted to the film. Condon directed Dreamgirls and is hoping to secure $25 million. Murphy, who has featured Pryor impersonations in his act as far back as the 1987 concert movie Raw, seems a sure in for this role.
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[...] you ask, no. This is NOT a remake of the eighties movie featuring Richard Pryor and John Candy, may both rest in peace, but rather an adaptation of the novel that the original [...]