Eddie Murphy To Star As George Clinton In Parliament Funkadelic Biopic For Director Bill Condon

It’s time to interrupt out the funk. Identified for guiding “Chicago,” “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn” components one and two, and “Beauty and the Beast,” filmmaker Bill Condon additionally “Dreamgirls,” which earned Eddie Murphy an Oscar nomination for Greatest Supporting Actor. Favored to win, Murphy didn’t take residence the Academy statue, however he apparently has not forgotten Condon. The 2 will team up once more for an untitled biopic of George Clinton, the legendary funk musician, artist, producer, and founding father of the seminal group Parliament-Funkadelic.

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Based on Deadline, the script is being Virgil Williams, identified for penning Dee Rees’ “Mudbound” and co-writing the upcoming Netflix movie “The Piano Lesson,” updating a draft written by Max Werner. The undertaking was initiated by producer Catherine Davis, a lifelong fan of George Clinton, who introduced the concept to Murphy.

The movie will probably be primarily based on George Clinton’s 2017 memoir, “Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard On You?” Clinton’s wildly artistic musical motion, spawned primarily by the 2 bands Parliament and Funkadelic—launched in an enormous approach within the Seventies, making a funk/soul/R&B combine with psychedelia and different drug-influenced notions. Parliament and Funkadelic are credited as being extremely influential, inspiring the likes of Prince, the Purple Sizzling Chili Peppers, and a big section of the burgeoning Eighties and ’90s hip hop scenes that have been always sampling the band, like Snoop Dogg, Ice Dice, and Dr. Dre (your entire early 90s Cali-West Coast hip hop scene was deeply indebted to Clinton’s sound).

Clinton’s bands additionally skilled a renaissance interval within the mid-’90s once they have been invited to the 1995 Lollapalooza tour, which featured Beastie Boys and Smashing Pumpkins. Clinton’s memoir has been described because the “story of a beloved global icon who dedicated himself to spreading the gospel of funk music.”

Clinton was additionally identified for his flamboyant and outlandish stage presence. His bands usually used house and “mothership” themes of their extravagant live shows and performances.

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The movie will probably be produced for Amazon MGM Studios, however no shoot date or launch time-frame has been made but. Maybe when extra casting is introduced, we’ll know when the undertaking is admittedly beginning to take off.