Marlon Wayans Hates You. Also Richard Pryor's Ghost.

In the ultimate "Those words don't make sense together" move, Happy Madison Productions has green-lit a biopic picture about the life of Richard Pryor, and playing the lead role will be Marlon Wayans because he's just about the funniest black entertainer  working today if you don't count pretty much everyone else and Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder and that one guy who slipped on a spilled strawberry-banana Jamba Juice© in front of Gruman's Chinese Theater the last time I was in Hollywood. Because that guy was really embarrassed and upset. Heh. Slip-and-fall injuries equals funny in my book.

Let me go over that again in case you missed it. Marlon Wayans, star of such side-splitters as White Chicks and Little Man, has been cast by Adam Sandler's production company, who are responsible for Paul Blart: Mall Cop, to star in a serious movie about Richard Pryor, who is in my opinion, one of the funniest humans to ever walk the planet because they all hate us so completely that their contempt is dripping out of their eyes like tears from Satan himself. At least that's the only way this can make any sense at all as I see it.

Now don't get me wrong. It's not like there are about three other people in his family who would be better suited than he is, or it's also not like Eddie Murphy was original slated to do this project for Fox Searchlight back in the days when the world made sense, and it's also also not like I want to jam a fork in my eyes instead of seeing this atrocity because I believe in giving every potential film a chance. Maybe they'll do the scene where Pryor has a heart attack by stabbing Marlon Wayans in the ribs right before the cameras roll like I-Can't-Spell-His-Impossible-Name Phoenix did to Russel Crowe in Gladiator. That would make it convincing and whimsical like when an undercover cop reveals she's not really a hooker at all, and that was totally entrapment because all I said was "What can I get for five bucks?" and I was totally talking about CHANGE, yo. I needed money for the collection dish. Swear.

In other news, Britney Spears will play Mother Theresa in her life story, and Louie Anderson will play the Hindenburg in that piece of Historical Fiction, and Carrottop is all set to play Henry Kissinger in the upcoming film "I Liked to French Richard Nixon"

Look for Richard Pryor (the movie not the deceased comedic genius) to come out around the time the skies turn to blood and the oceans boil, because...oh never mind...you're picking up what I'm laying down.

Comments

[Soda & Candy]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

[ND]

I'm not so worried. Did you see "Requiem for a Dream"? Given good source material I think he could pull it off. And he apparently impressed Pryor's widow. I'll reserve judgement.