Bill Condon had his biopic
Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said? in development at The Weinstein Company, but they put it into turnaround so now Condon has attached
Eddie Murphy as star and gone out to court the studios for a new deal. Condon previously threatened to relaunch Murphy's acting career (as in actual
acting) with his Oscar nominated part in
Dreamgirls - this was ultimately an idle threat, as it happens, but