That explains his outfit on Arsenio
DOLEMITE IS MY NAME (2019) Starring Eddie Murphy (drops 10/25)(Update Thick Sister Added)(thread)
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He busted up his jaw, fucked up his face, broke all four legs, snatched his ass outta place..
He picked him up, slammed him to the tree, nothin’ but lion shit as far as you could see...
Eddie is one of the few comedians that can play Rudy Ray Moore.
Exactly...
It’s takes a special talent to embody Rudy Ray Moore...
I’m extremely excited for this... plus it will be the first time in forever that we will see Eddie doing Comedy in a hard R movie. And this shit had better be HArd Fucking R. i mean Hard R... can you dig it.
Eddie Murphy is about to return to the screen for the first time in awhile. He’s starring in Dolemite Is My Name, a Netflix film which begins production June 12 about the life of Rudy Ray Moore, the star of the blaxploitation Dolemite films. Hustle and Flow‘s Craig Brewer is directing a script by Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski, the writing team behind such quirky biographical films as Big Eyes, Ed Wood and The People Vs. Larry Flynt. John Davis and John Fox are producing with Murphy, who has been eager to play this role for a decade.
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. Moore followed with three sequels. He continues to be an influence for the likes of hip hop entrepreneur Snoop Dogg, and he had something of a comeback starring alongside the hip hop group Insane Clown Posse in Big Money Hustlas in 2000.
Murphy last starred in 2016’s Mr Church, and before that in 2012’s A Thousand Words. He and Brewer are WME while the scribes are CAA.
https://deadline.com/2018/06/eddie-...scott-alexander-larry-karaszewski-1202404562/
You might remember him as Billy Ray Valentine, Sherman Klump, or Donkey -- but after a brief hiatus from the spotlight, Eddie Murphy is poised to return in Netflix's Dolemite Is My Name. The film, which Murphy will produce and star in, is a biopic about the late singer and actor Rudy Ray Moore.
Before transforming into a seventies cult classic, Dolemite was an urban legend. Moore self-baptized himself as Dolemite's theatrical ambassador, delivering audiences a humorous, politically incorrect tale of a wrongfully imprisoned pimp. Deadline reports that Murphy has been interested in the role "for a decade", and his prolific comedy career certainly positions him as a worthy successor. Murphy's star began rising in the eighties when he served as part of Saturday Night Live's regular cast; it continued to shine in Trading Places, slapstick sci-fi The Nutty Professor and Shrek.
Joining Murphy in Dolemite is My Name are Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, an Emmy award-winning screenwriting duo responsible for FX's critically acclaimed series American Crime Story. Production is scheduled to begin on June 12th.
It has been some couple of years ever since Eddie Murphy has hit the big screen and now he back to play a beloved role.
The Coming to America class-act is set to play blaxploitation film legend Rudy Ray Moore in Dolemite Is My Name, a Netflix film centered around the life and times of the Dolemite actor as reported by Deadline. Apparently, Murphy has been yearning to play this role for a decade and his wish has finally come to fruition. Production for the film will start this month with Craig Brewer as the director, who is also behind the directs of Hustle & Flow.
Reigning throughout the 1970s, the blaxploitation movie era showcased a core reality of the Black community. Blaxploitation movies and actors leveled up to become influential figures in the culture of Hip-Hop and overall, its musical content. Rudy Ray Moore is best known as being the vivid hustling pimp hero in the Dolemite film series. Permeated with Black ghetto fantasy tales, raw rhymes, and graphic comedic sketches, Moore subconsciously contributed to the blueprint of storytelling by the Hip-Hop emcee. Dolemite films were unapologetically vulgar, to an extent, the local record stores refused to sell Moore’s films. So rather than hitting the mainstream circuit, Moore became a hood hit star aka underground hit.
Moore is highly respected in the culture of hip-hop as a precursor to the hip-hop emcee in which accounts of homage are evident in the works of hip-hop notables in the likes of Big Daddy Kane (“Big Daddy vs. Dolemite” Taste of Chocolate 1990), Snoop Dogg ( “Dolomite” No Limit Top Dogg 1999), and Busta Rhymes (“Intro” When Disaster Strikes… 1997). The blaxploitation legend passed away in 2008 at the age of 81 from diabetes.
Dolemite is gay. Eddy likes trannies. So it might work.
I remember when Rudy Ray Moore first became popular in the early 60s. I can't lie that shit he was doing was horrible. But it didn't take much to be considered funny back then. Just be able to cuss. You were a hit. I never got a gay vibe from his works. Yeah he did some really "risque" shit, like his album covers. Gay maybe but even Pryor crossed "that" line.
Man, there's no maybe about it: he was gay. A quick internet search will prove it. It's fucked up too, because who here has a dad who didn't put them on to Dolemite? He was among the first Black action hero on film I remember seeing. But, he was gay.
Eddie Murphy is about to return to the screen for the first time in awhile. He’s starring in Dolemite Is My Name, a Netflix film which begins production June 12 about the life of Rudy Ray Moore, the star of the blaxploitation Dolemite films. Hustle and Flow‘s Craig Brewer is directing a script by Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski, the writing team behind such quirky biographical films as Big Eyes, Ed Wood and The People Vs. Larry Flynt. John Davis and John Fox are producing with Murphy, who has been eager to play this role for a decade.
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. Moore followed with three sequels. He continues to be an influence for the likes of hip hop entrepreneur Snoop Dogg, and he had something of a comeback starring alongside the hip hop group Insane Clown Posse in Big Money Hustlas in 2000.
Murphy last starred in 2016’s Mr Church, and before that in 2012’s A Thousand Words. He and Brewer are WME while the scribes are CAA.
https://deadline.com/2018/06/eddie-...scott-alexander-larry-karaszewski-1202404562/
Repost my man..
https://www.bgol.us/forum/threads/e...iography-way-down-in-the-jungle-deep.1004704/
My dad didn't but there's 2 other things. If the dude was gay so what? Why was it so important to prove the dude was gay? This thread is about Eddie Murphy playing Rudy Ray Moore. An what Rudy was doing back then worked because we didn't have movies that starred black people.
Yeah Rudy Ray never claimed to be gay and never pushed that agenda so to me its irrelevant on whether he was gay or not. Dolemite surely wasn't.
In case there was any doubt...
Not knocking the legend for it but come on people dude was sweeter than hood kool-aid.
PUT YOUR WEIGHT ON IT!!!
*two cents*
If that's the way you choose to see this issue, then, that's cool. I don't knock you for your views on the issue. It's an issue for me, though, because he was an early strong Black male icon. To me, for him to be gay is kind of a slap in the face, because there weren't many strong Black male icons on screen at the time. To cast and make a star out of a gay Black man back then when Hollywood (or whoever) could have found a straight Black man for others Black males to emulate is wrong in my opinion.
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But there were others. Jim Brown, Richard Roundtree, Isaac Hayes, Fred Williamson. It's not like Rudy was playing a feminie character.
I've never once heard him admit to being gay....my first time hearing that.
Dude wasn't gay.
BUmp for the repost
Interested to see this.
Youre in denial. Dude was gay af.
Shit gots to be raunchy or it’s a fail.
Eddie and Chris Rock!!!??
he is. it's just every time you see him on screen, his face looks like hes about to make a joke.
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Damn that place looks nice. No need to even leave the house.
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