Eddie Murphy And Arsenio Hall Claim Paramount ‘Forced’ Them To Cast A White Actor In CTA

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

Okay...and the original Coming To America was directed by John Landis.

And was co-written by Murphy's team of Barry Blaustein

And David W. Sheffield

Can somebody please tell me which were Eddie's best films with Spike Lee, John Singleton, Ryan Coogler or the Hughes Brothers at the helm? I'll wait.

 

[Theodoresolderbreh]

A bit like Black Panther. That CIA character irritated me.

Everett Ross is part of that stort and from the comic.

 

[Umoja]

Everett Ross is part of that stort and from the comic.

Harry Osborne is a big part of Spider Man. Didn't see him in Homecoming or Far From Home.

No passes.

Doesn't mean that he won't make an appearance down the road in future films.

Yeah... the same way Ross should have appeared in a Black Panther 3 or 4.

 

[shopthatwrecks]

It was 3 peckerwoods in the original

 

[CoryMack]

It worked

“And that’s when the big bucks start rollin in!!” Lol

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Your point would hold more validity if it was a random white dude made for move purposes instead of an established character in BP. Regardless of whether he appeared in later films, you still would have been griping that a while dude was in the movie lol.

 

[old pig]

Louie CK >>> Louie Anderson

wake me up when louis ck has his own cartoon

 

[Big Boss]

Not surprised

U dudes didn’t see Nate Parker talk about how Hollywood wanted a white hero in birth of a nation and he said nah, that’s why he started to get black balled and people digging in his past..

He also said a lot of c00ns in Hollywood told him don’t do that type of movie and he was like it has to be told

Link??

 

[Luke Cage]

Your point would hold more validity if it was a random white dude made for move purposes instead of an established character in BP. Regardless of whether he appeared in later films, you still would have been griping that a while dude was in the movie lol.

Did you consider the fact that maybe Ross was established in the BP comics for the same exact reason?
Or do you think literature is exempt from

 

[Big Boss]

Okay...and the original Coming To America was directed by John Landis.

And was co-written by Murphy's team of Barry Blaustein

And David W. Sheffield

Can somebody please tell me which were Eddie's best films with Spike Lee, John Singleton, Ryan Coogler or the Hughes Brothers at the helm? I'll wait.

There was a conversation about Eddie and Spike in the 90s



Eddie Murphy and Spike Lee in Conversation: Our 1990 Cover Story

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

Coming to America is a classic that should have been left alone

I bet it ends up pretty decent.

The Amazon money is probably hard to turn down.

 

[Blankthawtz]

Should have chose Steve Martin......

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Did you consider the fact that maybe Ross was established in the BP comics for the same exact reason?
Or do you think literature is exempt from

I don’t know the answer to that question and neither do you.

My point is that the character has been in the BP comics for over 20 years and before the new Marvel movie universe got established. So it wasn’t just a random white dude created just to be included in the movie. Don’t forget he was in the animated TV on BET as well.

For the record, Christopher Priest help create the Ross character.

 

[OG Talk]

It breaks my heart that people as established Eddie and Cube still don’t have control of their intellectual property. Generation X went far, but not far enough.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

It breaks my heart that people as established Eddie and Cube still don’t have control of their intellectual property. Generation X went far, but not far enough.

In their defense, the majority of Hollywood doesn’t have control of their intellectual property. Even big name actors don’t have the type of bread needed to finance movies on their own, which is where movie studios come in to foot the bill.

That’s just the game and how it works.