Our last update on this project was in March, when director Lee Daniels hinted via his Instagram page that Eddie Murphy would be joining the cast of his Richard Pryor film, which Mike Epps is attached to star in, as well as Oprah Winfrey and Kate Hudson
The Weinstein Co. production will see Murphy play Richard Pryor’s father, LeRoy Pryor, Winfrey as Marie Carter, Pryor’s grandmother, and Hudson as Jennifer Lee Pryor, Richard Pryor’s 4th wife.
This evening, Deadline is reporting that the above cast is officially set, and production is set to begin next March, as soon as Daniels wraps up the second season of his hit Fox series…
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