RelatedĮddie Murphy, Amazon Studios agree to three-picture and first-look dealĮddie Murphy did indeed make his grand return in Dolemite Is My Name, and the Razzie Awards even recognized their mistake and awarded him the Razzie Redeemer Award last year. The plan was to go do ‘Dolemite,’ ‘Saturday Night Live,’ ‘Coming 2 America,’ and then do stand-up and see how I felt afterwards. Reginald Hudlin will direct the film, produced by Amazon Studios, Imagine Entertainment and. I was only gonna take a break for a year, then all of a sudden six years go by, and I’m sitting on the couch, and I could sit on the couch and not get off it, but I don’t want to the last bunch of shit they see me do bullshit. Eddie Murphy is set to star in and produce Candy Cane Lane, a new holiday comedy for Prime Video. , 'Maybe it’s time to take a break.'" During the 2010 Razzie Award ceremony, Eddie Murphy actually received the award for Worst Actor of the Decade, which seems a little harsh, but Murphy decided it was time to take a break. The untitled feature will star Eddie Murphy opposite Jonah Hill and is set to have Kenya Barris serve as the. are hoping to develop a doozy of a follow-up to the 1988 hit comedy that starred Arnold. They’re giving me Razzies…Motherfuckers gave me the 'worst actor ever' Razzie. Netflix is developing a new comedy film that will target two generations at once. Iconic comedian, Louie Anderson, dies at 68Įddie Murphy wound up receiving nine Razzie nominations ("winning" three) over the years, and while speaking on Marc Maron's WTF podcast, Murphy said, " I was making shitty movies. 'Life' was an underrated movie, with lots of messages about life in the South generations ago mixed with the aforementioned humor.Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy play two poor young men with different prospects in life that meet by chance and form a bittersweet friendship which lasts a. Although those films were just as successful as his older comedies, they led to a string of misfires such as The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Norbit, Meet Dave, Imagine That, and A Thousand Words which ultimately led to Murphy quitting acting for an extended period. Its full of Steve Martins humor along with Murphys. When the comedian got his start, he found huge success with R-rated comedies such as Trading Places, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, Coming to America, and more, but by the mid-90s, Murphy had jumped onboard the family-friendly bandwagon with The Nutty Professor, Doctor Dolittle, and Shrek. When you've been working in the entertainment industry for decades, chances are pretty good that you've made a few bad movies, and that's definitely true of Eddie Murphy.