Official Richard Pryor Movie: Eddie Murphy, Oprah, Kate Hudson signed up

[Kidd Dibiase]

I liked the Butler, but was disappointed after finding out how much of that movie was really lies for dramatic effect. I hope this isn't gonna be one of those cases

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

I liked the Butler, but was disappointed after finding out how much of that movie was really lies for dramatic effect. I hope this isn't gonna be one of those cases

Harry Lennix (Five Heartbeats, Man of Steel, etc) said this


"I think about it every day and any time that a role is offered, and believe me lots of crummy roles are offered. But at this point people know better than to mess with me with a lot of these things. For example Lee Daniels sent me the script for that film he’s making now, The Butler, about the black butler at the White House. I read five pages of this thing and could not go any further. I tried to read more of it, and I’m not a soft spoken guy, but it was such an appalling mis-direction of history in terms of taking an actual guy who worked at the White House. But then he “******fies” it. He "******s" it up and he gives people these, stupid, luddite, antediluvian ideas about black people and their roles in the historical span in the White House and it becomes… well... historical porn. I refused."

Well that’s not good.

"And people want to see these images so they’ll say things like: “It’s a very difficult movie to look at, but it’s great movie.” That’s a contradiction in terms. That’s a paradox. It can’t be that it’s a great movie, but it’s difficult to look at. You know what I mean? (laughs) Why would you put these images out there? But clearly the critics, many of them, love to see this kind of material and love to see us in these types of roles."

Because it feeds into…

"Because it feeds into the great lie that is being perpetrated by the most important medium, the most powerful export that the United States has to offer which is entertainment. The most powerful tool that they have and it has kept us in a place, men in dresses and things, raping their daughters and things. While any sort of aberrant behavior happens in any community, it has become normative in black cinema that we are these bestial, deprived people, and I refuse to play with that."

Well just keep fighting the good fight.

"I’ll never take part in it. They can kiss my ass (laughs). But it’s not going to happen."
Harry Lennix Takes On 'The Butler' - Says Lee Daniels 'N*ggerfies It,' Calls It 'Historical Porn'

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

On IMDB it says Mike Epps played Richard Pryor in the Nina Simone that hasnt been released yet

Would be a good way to see what we're getting with the Pryor movie.

 

[Tae]

I thought this movie had already been shot. I been seeing this pic on another forum since August of last year:

Didn't his wife always have dark hair. If this is a real set pic why didn't they make Kate dye her hair. Hopefully this is a before pic.

Cast is stacked but this Lee Daniels thing has me on the fence. Not saying he's a bad director but he's a very operatic cat, so this could end up being a very big movie, and not in a good way.

Lee Daniels is what concerns me as well, he is only a slight upgrade from Tyler Perry. This could turn out like the Paper Boy or The Butler, either way...