It's been a while since we've seen Eddie Murphy on our screens, especially since his most recent film, Mr. Church never made it over to UK cinemas. He'll have more luck with a new movie for Netflix in which he'll play Dolemite star Rudy Ray Moore.
With a script from biopic experts Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski and Hustle & Flow's Craig Brewer in the director's chair, the untitled film will follow Moore's fascinating journey to the screen and beyond.
Moore worked in a Hollywood record store in 1970 when he began hearing outlandish and obscene stories of pimp and hustler named Dolemite. He started a club act where he became Dolemite. He began generating records that mixed humour and a ghetto fantasy character, burnishing the legend. While too racy to be put on display in record stores, the records became a big inner city underground hit. The proceeds allowed Moore to finance the 1975 film Dolemite, in which he starred as a kung fu-capable pimp ghetto hero who stuck it to The Man. Moore followed with three sequels. He died in 2008, but not before his career had been kept going by many of the people he influenced.
Brewer will have the cameras rolling next week, and this could be hitting the streaming service either later this year or in 2019.
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