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“Fantasy Island” remake with Eddie Murphy?
Eddie Murphy starring in a film remake of “Fantasy Island”?
Who said he didn’t win on the big night hey…. Hey!?
Shit hey.
According to IESB.net, Columbia has tapped ‘Academy Award Nominee’ (and an actor that should be friggin holding out for better stuff now) Murphy to headline their big-screen redo of the 70s series.
Here’s the worst fuckin’ part, the script is being re-written by “Norbit” writers (there were writers on it?) Jay Scherick and David Ron (makes you wonder who ‘wrote’ the script). Oh, and Murphy will again be playing multiple parts in the movie. Anyone else over multiple Murphy?
Hells Bells. What is Murphy doing? There’s a reason – well, there’s a couple – why the 80s legend didn’t win the statue for “Dreamgirls” and its named “Norbit”. The man is beyond that rubbish.. and yet insists on pumping them out. Tell me the fact that a big billboard of ‘Norbit’ hanging over the top of the Kodak theatre in the lead-up to the Oscars didn’t hurt the man’s chances of winning? Of course it did. It was a lasting reminder of what Murphy had been doing for the umpteen years before he was approached for “Dreamgirls”. The dude was friggin’ fantastic in the latter.. and he should be releasing that.. or at least, his manager should be realizing that and try to milk it for all its worth. The dude could be snagging some meaty meaningful roles if he plays his cards right.
It’s not going to happen though. Murphy’s upcoming schedule reads like a er-er-er of movie mediocrity : a comedy for FOX called “Starship Dave” (sounds like “Pluto Nash”), a fourth “Beverly Hills Cop” film (I want it to be good… but I doubt it will be), a family comedy called “NowhereLand” and a comedy for Brett Ratner (!).
“Fantasy Island” was set on well, Fantasy Island, a resort, where there is very little that the host, Mr. Roarke cannot provide. Thus we have visitors have adventures in fantasies that should be impossible, but this island can accommodate them such as visits to any time period they want, meet absolutely anyone they see to do something they request such as getting William Shakespeare to write a play for them. The only constant (until the final season) was at the sight of the incoming visitors, the Mr. Roarke’s midget assistant runs up to the bell tower to ring the bell and shout “De plane!, De plane!”
If you must Eddie… make it with John Landis or Martin Brest; have Mike Judge or Todd Phillips write the script… and play just one character. And make him funny.
