Thursday, March 28, 2024

Eddie Murphy Set to Play Rudy Ray Moore in Netflix Biopic ‘Dolemite’

*Eddie Murphy is set to make his return to the screen with Netflix’s “Dolemite Is My Name.”

Murphy will produce and star in this biopic about the late singer and actor Rudy Ray Moore, the star of the blaxploitation films.

“Hustle and Flow’s” Craig Brewer is helming the project from a script by Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski.

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per Deadline:

“Moore worked in a Hollywood record store in 1970 when he began hearing obscene stories of pimp and hustler named Dolemite. He started a club act where he became Dolemite. He then began generating records that mixed humor 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, which he starred in as a kung fu-capable pimp ghetto hero who stuck it to The Man.”

Murphy has reportedly been interested in the role “for a decade.”

Moore recorded the Dolemite comedy albums in the early 1970s and used the proceeds to finance the 1975 film “Dolemite.” He followed with three sequels.

Murphy last starred in 2016’s “Mr. Church” and before that in 2012’s “A Thousand Words.”

 

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