Eddie Murphy Will Play George Clinton in Bill Condon-Directed Biopic

Eddie Murphy will play George Clinton in an upcoming biopic, based on a number of studies Friday. The comic will painting the music legend within the Amazon MGM Studios movie directed by Bill Condon.

Clinton shared the information on his Instagram, captioning it with the “👀” emoji.

Though not many particulars have been made accessible concerning the at the moment untitled biopic, Deadline studies that Virgil Williams is writing a script for the movie, based mostly on an unique draft by Max Werner. The script is about to be based mostly on the funk musician’s 2014 memoir, Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard On You?

Rolling Stone described the e book as “astounding,” as he shared particulars about partying with Sly Stone and encountering zombies with Parliament bassist Billy Bass Nelson.

“We ran a roadblock, went a few mile alongside the street, and got here out right into a small city the place we noticed all these fucking creatures strolling round, zombies or mummies, fingers up within the air and useless seems to be on their faces,” he wrote within the e book. “We had been scared out of our fucking minds,” he added, revealing that the had really chanced on the set of George Romero’s Evening of the Residing Useless.

The movie will reunite Murphy with Condon after the pair labored collectively in 2006’s Dreamgirls, by which Murphy starred with Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Hudson, and Beyoncé.

Actress Catherine Davis, a fan of Clinton’s, introduced the thought to Murphy, per studies. The movie will share the life story of the funk pioneer and the way he based musical collective Parliament-Funkadelic.

Davis, Greg Yolen, and Murphy’s and John Davis’ personal manufacturing corporations will produce the movie. Clinton, 83, will government produce the movie alongside Charisse Hewitt-Webster, Archie Ivy, and Jeff Jampol.

Murphy is subsequent set to star in The Pickup with Keke Palmer and Pete Davidson, whereas Condon is ending up Kiss of the Spider Woman, which stars Jennifer Lopez and Diego Luna.