Epps as Pryor, Bond in Prague: Variety in 60 Seconds
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Mike Epps will play Richard Pryor in a Walter Hill-directed biopic on the comedian's life. "The material is larger than life, and you need
someone to fit into it who's not extraordinarily famous or else it
would be like Al Jolson playing Malcolm X," said Pryor's wife Jennifer. Now THAT woulda been a show...- Casino Royale, the next and 21st James Bond film, will shoot in Prague next summer. Variety claims "the lead is still not cast."
- Crystal Sky and Screen Gems are partnering to make a feature based on the martial arts video game Tekken, to be directed by "longtime Tekken player Charles Stone."
- MTV Films is planning to buy a project called Adult World from 23-year-old writer Andrew Cochran, about a Stanford student mitigating a dream deferred.
- Three Disney films are set to hit Broadway as full-fledged cash-cow musicals in the next two years: The Little Mermaid, Tarzan, and London transplant Mary Poppins.
- 'Where else can one hear in a single question references to, and a supposed relationship between, the Philadelphia mob and the American Civil War?" Elizabeth Guider attends a Cannes press conference starring Lars Von Trier.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:18PM
Chris Thilk said...
Does anyone not think Mike Epps is just going for the same cache Jamie Foxx got after starring in Ray?
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