On the heels of the post about board games becoming blockbusters, I want to acknowledge this absolute blasphemy. This has been posted all over the internet, but here’s the story from Ain’t It Cool:

HitFix and Entertainment Weekly are reporting that Fox Searchlight will finance Bill Condon’s $25 million biopic RICHARD PRYOR: IS IT SOMETHING I SAID?, for which Murphy will waive his usual eight-figure fee in order to play his lifelong idol.

This might have been a fantastic idea in 1985 when Eddie Murphy was cutting edge and funny. Since then, he’s thrilled audiences with such garbage as Daddy Day Care, Norbit and Honkey Grandma Be Trippin’–oh wait, that one’s a Tracy Jordan joint.

In short, I can’t imagine him playing one of the greatest comedians of all time, and probably one of the funniest human beings to ever walk the earth. I think they would have been better off to cast a relative unknown who could really nail it because, despite his great Pryor impression, many won’t be able to get past the fact that it’s still Eddie Murphy.

From Variety

Universal has attached Gore Verbinski to develop “Clue,” a live-action murder mystery based on the Hasbro board game that he would direct.
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“Clue” is one of the few board games to surpass $1 billion in sales, in more than 50 markets. It was developed in England by a retired legal clerk named Anthony Pratt during WWII and released in 1948.

A previous film version was released in 1985.

I remember the “previous film version” and it was awesome! I have a general rule that Hollywood should never re-make anything starring Tim Curry because there is simply no way to top his performances. Just look at Rocky Horror, which is also supposedly being remade. I can’t even imagine anyone else playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter–seriously, my mind can’t conceive of it!

But that’s not the only thing wrong with this trend. The article also said this:

At Universal, Hasbro hatched “Stretch Armstrong,” which just set Steve Oedekerk as writer; the Ridley Scott-directed “Monopoly”; “Candyland,” which Etan Cohen (“Tropic Thunder”) is writing for Kevin Lima to direct; and “Ouija,” which is being produced by Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes banner.

Are we so void of ideas that we are throwing millions of dollars into bringing “Candyland” to the big screen?! And when I read that Michael Bay was involved in making “Ouija”, I just felt like I was watching a Whitest Kids sketch.