Oh good god. Please someone tell me this is some kind of joke. Will someone please tell Eddie Murphy that this kind of crap is beneath him now and that it’s time for him to move on to better movies? Not only is the man going to be making the horrendous mistake of doing Beverly Hills Cop 4, but now the word is he’s actually going to be doing a movie version of the old TV show “Fantasy Island.
The guys over at Moviehole put it perfectly when they say:
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.
WHAT THE F*CK?!?! Again with the bloody multiple roles and most likely fat suites? Listen people… LISTEN TO ME… Stop going to see this kind of shit in the theaters. JUST STOP!!! As long as you go see Norbit and making the studios money for those piles of crap movies, then they have no choice but to keep making them… while passing on better projects. THIS IS YOUR FAULT (mine too). LET the fricking madness end.
I’m totally beside myself in disbelief. We are a culture of fucking morons and idiots. If 6 months ago someone said “Hey Gio… would you believe me if I told you yet another Eddie Murphy in a fat costume movie was going to be a hit and that they’d then do a Fantasy Island remake with him doing the same thing?” I would say to that person “No, our society is screwed up… but not THAT screwed up”. Looks like I would have been wrong. We’re more screwed up than I could possibly dream.
We’re watching reality shows and Norbit and remaking Fantasy fucking Island… while in China their 14 year olds are more educated that most of our University grads. Who’s going to be laughing in 10 years?
Sorry for the rant.. I’m just dumbfounded.
