Marlon Wayans "Ready" To Play Richard Pryor

Marlon Wayans will play Richard Pryor in Bill Condon's bio-pic.



When it was announced that Marlon Wayans was going to play Richard Pryor in the upcoming biopic Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said?, the youngest of the Wayans clan told the Los Angeles Times that he wasn't surprised to find a healthy amount of Internet skepticism about the casting.

Marlon Wayans beat out contender Eddie Murphy for the role. Murphy's publicist said that Murphy left the project due to "differences on the creative front" but has "given his blessing for Marlon to do it." Producer Mark Gordon confirmed that there "were discussions" with Murphy for the role, but that Wayans the "clear choice" for the part after watching a 13-minute audition where Wayans supposedly "transformed into Pryor."

Is It Something I Said? will be directed by Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) and produced by Chris Rock and Pryor's widow Jennifer Lee Pryor. Gordon described the project as "a celebration of Pryor's life" that will show both "the light and the darkness" of Pryor's career. The movie will be released some time next year, and begins production this fall.

Source: ReelzChannel.com Movie News

 

WTF and is Dave Chapelle playing Bill Cosby too.

 

Oh shit!!!! Big news.

Damn, Eddie Murphy does a hella good Pryor. So does Eddie Griffin, cause they used to hang back in the day. According to Eddie Griffin, Pryor told him "You know I fucked ya mama, right?" Never heard Marlon's Pryor. Hope it's good.

 

I guess some are not satisfied of Pryor's "Jo Jo Dancer,Your Life is Coming". It would be hard to top that since no one can tell the story than Pryor himself.

 

agreed. pryor narrating and talking to himself as a character in the story of his own life... did there need to be a biopic made? and the director of dreamgirls?? i am more skeptical of how the vibe of the movie might be more so than the casting of wayans.

 

I wanna see it.

 

Good choice.

 

Hmmm....I'm really not sure what to think about this. Marlon Wayans wouldn't be my choice for anything. :|

 

My thoughts, exactly.

We'll see how he does.

 

I've never seen it, but supposedly in Requiem for a Dream Wayans showed a more convincing dramatic side.. statistically one of the few he's ever done, anyway..

but I hope for the best.. the script shouldn't aim to just recreate his standup routines, that would be pointless.. :smt017

I wonder who will play some of the other famous people in his life.. jim brown, etc.

 

Cosign that,
I love him in the wayans brother show stuff, but I cant see him do anything serious and Pryor??? Hell NO!

 

Wonder what Paul Mooney has to say about it.

 

I wasn't sure about him either, but I remember a lot of us couldn't picture Jamie Foxx playing Ray Charles, but he brought it.

 

Marlon Wayans? wtf? So random.

 

Exactly.:smt045

 

oh and that other movie he recently made.
i think he should play Pryor.

 

I just dont see it

 

I'm trying to see it too and it's not happening. We'll have to wait and see how he brings it.

 

Yep, not likely they will listen to us