Will Fox Work With Eddie Murphy Again?

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1. Crappy for Murphy who’s a creep

   Karma for Fox

   Comment by Ha — July 9, 2008 @ 5:07 pm

2. Eddie, who?

   And Fox and Murphy deserve one another–a marriage made in hell.

   Comment by Not Eddie's Fan — July 9, 2008 @ 5:22 pm

3. This movie’s doomed anyway. Fox should have made one of the earlier drafts. By trying to make it more family friendly, they screwed up a funny project.

   Same as Hancock. Too much tinkering on paper results in a movie that just plain blows.

   Comment by Drew — July 9, 2008 @ 5:30 pm

4. Is this the same Eddie Murphy has-been who pitched a hissy fit because not enough people liked him to get him an Oscar that he for some reason felt he deserved (even though he acted like a complete asshole on the set)?

   Comment by Crystal Diane Stevens — July 9, 2008 @ 5:48 pm

5. years ago I worked at a Comedy Awards event and Eddie Murphy was going to attend. He (through his ‘people’) insisted that an entire multi-room private VIP green room was set up just for him and his group. The rider details were incredible — peach Jolly Ranchers in bowls in all the rooms!

   needless to say, Eddie showed up for the event, but never set foot in his VIP green room. the castle that never saw the king. a total folly of time and effort for everyone who built this green room.

   But I did take some of the Jolly Ranchers home…

   Comment by Ain't Sayin — July 9, 2008 @ 5:58 pm

6. Not running out to see a trannie in a “family film”. Rather see Wall E, Kit Kittredge, Kung Fun Panda - or…nothing at all. Eddie is sooo 80’s.

   Comment by stopinthename — July 9, 2008 @ 6:12 pm

7. This whole Eddie Murphy as a family friendly comedian just seems toxic to me as a film/comedy lover.

   And the stories of prima donna behaviour strikes me as the actions of someone who is desperately trying to recreate the last time he was relevant, which was a looooong time ago.

   Oh well, just another movie, I’m not going to see.

   Comment by Furious D — July 9, 2008 @ 6:15 pm

8. The studios reap what they sow.

   They’re the ones who grossly and stupidly overpay these “A-listers” and cater to their every whim and create monsters

   All the while, audiences go to movies that are well done, not movies starring a known person.

   Comment by you get what you overpay for — July 9, 2008 @ 6:33 pm

9. Brian Robbins was at the premiere. Here are pics to prove it.

   http://wireimage.com/SearchResults.aspx?igi=324409&s=meet%20dave&cbi=505&sfld=C&vwmd=e

   Comment by Bret Kaiser — July 9, 2008 @ 6:41 pm

10. I wish the old Eddie was still around… the ‘Axel’ Eddie.

    Comment by Michael Dobrofsky — July 9, 2008 @ 6:46 pm

11. What I love is the movie’s tagline:

    Eddie Murphy IN Eddie Murphy

    Probably his number one secret fetish.

    The ending of Pluto Nash makes a lot more sense now…

    Comment by MisterEight — July 9, 2008 @ 8:41 pm

12. ask Tom Rothman about the fact that he never returned Eddie Murphy’s calls about offering to do promos for the film, and that Tom never saw the film until the premiere, at which point he apologized to Brian Robbins for not understanding how good the film really was, and that Fox messed up.

    Comment by john adams — July 9, 2008 @ 9:52 pm

13. Mr. Sequel needs to be retired from acting for awhile anyway. Eddie Murphy playing multiple characters?! Gee whiz, that’s original! Eddie Murphy being credited TWICE above the title on the posters? Gee, haven’t seen that before! Unless he’s doing something different (ala Dreamgirls), I’m not even remotely interested.

    Comment by Who Even Cares — July 9, 2008 @ 11:34 pm

14. My gift to the industry: The Perfect Comeback.

    The next time a star makes ridiculous demands like a separate VIP room with peach Jolly Ranchers, simply reply thusly:

    “When the Beatles played Shea Stadium, all they asked for was a six-pack of Coke. You really think you deserve better than them?”

    Comment by cadavra — July 9, 2008 @ 11:44 pm

15. I’m surprised Fox is working with him after Doctor Dolittle 2 - in which Eddie, well, did little.

    Comment by W5 — July 10, 2008 @ 12:11 am

16. It’s a shame that pricks like Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey & Mike Myers continue to work despite their notorious behavior issues. These people should never have been allowed to behave like pricks in the first place.

    Comment by 40yearoldstitzer — July 10, 2008 @ 12:53 am

17. Face it people. Eddie Murphy isn’t going anywhere. His career has more lives than Foo Manchu.

    Nash Pluto would have killed anyone elses career stone dead. But not Eddie. He’s just keeps on coming back.

    Give me a call Eddie when you make a film that’s peppered with the word ‘motherf*cker’.

    Until then.

    Passsssssssssssssssssss.

    Comment by Warner Borg — July 10, 2008 @ 3:22 am

18. Dear John Adams - I guess the critics don’t know how “good” the film is either.

    Eddie was funny when Eddie wasn’t trying - these days you can see the sweat.

    No idea what it will do this weekend, but it’s a one trick pony - that will cost the studio millions and millions, and will cost Eddie, at long last, his overrated career. Perhaps, after his reality check (can you say Pluto Nash deux?) he’ll go back to his roots, and dump the enterouge.

    Comment by dobie — July 10, 2008 @ 6:38 am

19. I find it odd that there are absolutely NO reviews at all. I mean, zero. Which means, the studio is holding the movie for fear of bad advance word. Shame. One of the producers of this film wrote a movie I loved. Perfect Stranger. Underrated. Really twisted. From Halle Berry to Eddie Murphy - this guy doesn’t have such a bad job.

    Comment by suze — July 10, 2008 @ 6:45 am

20. Eddie will make movies at Fox if John Fox has any say in it. He has been suckling Eddie’s humorless teet for a long time now. They are both incredibly bad at their jobs and continue to fail upwards.

    Comment by redgoat — July 10, 2008 @ 8:47 am

21. john adams -

    so murphy trashes his premiere because he didn’t get enough attention?

    that only underscores what a jerk he is.

    Comment by no more celebs — July 10, 2008 @ 9:52 am

22. Why is Fox taking orders from Eddie Murphy? Serves them right.

    The studios are compliant for moronic things, and non-compliant for smart things.

    Comment by D. — July 10, 2008 @ 10:09 am

23. Here’s hoping …

    Is Meet Dave Eddie Murphy’s last film?

    Comment by Max — July 10, 2008 @ 10:32 am

24. John Adams, you really think someone as hands-on as Rothman, or any studio head, would see a movie at the premiere? Give me a break. And Fox — particularly on a film like this — markets like maniacs, so I call bullshit on the phone calls not being returned. They would make actors walk over hot coals if it sold the movie. How about that Eddie refuses to do most press for fear of reporters bringing up transvestites and any studio that does a film with him is restricted by this lack of promotion — unlike Will Smith or even Tom Cruise.

    Comment by rightsaidfred — July 10, 2008 @ 2:04 pm

25. I saw Meet Dave last weekend and thought it was a good family friendly movie - Not great, but good. It was better than Hancock which didn’t make any sense.

    I laughed a lot at Meet Dave mainly because I knew what Eddie was going for in the characterization. Eddie was doing Charlie Chaplin… In real life Charlie Chaplin and Peter Sellers who both were a handful too.

    Brian Robbins did a great job with the material he had to work with…

    I use to be in the Eddie Murphy real Entourage and the things we would do was much funnier than the HBO version. Yes, we were jerks but that is the point when you are in a brat pack/black pack. In this town, if you aren’t the jerk you are the hire-shit-on-help.

    Everybody has an attitude in showbiz.

    I worked on Dream Girls and Norbit with Eddie and he was of course stand-offish to people who were not his friend or not crew members.

    I have been there when waitresses has spilled boiling hot water on him in restaurants - and bitches setting him up on baby daddy’s charges -

    Been there when he was called a niggar by the chairman of Gulf & Western for his Oscar speech… and been there in the good times too.

    Once you get past the cold shield he puts up to guard himself with, he is really a nice and loving friend —

    I love my old friend Eddie, Charlie and his mom too.

    My book about Eddie Murphy should be coming out soon.

    I just have to get him to read it first. (lol) I promised Eddie’s former manager Richard Tienken I would not use his story in the book without Eddie’s blessing.

    Chris E. Jackson

    Comment by Chris Jackson — July 10, 2008 @ 10:53 pm

26. “Chris Jackson,” you are a schmuck.

    Don’t expect people to sympathize with racial epithets when in the same breath you turn around and refer to women as “bitches.” You will not be taken seriously when whining about racism, but behaving like a misogynist. No integrity to your position.

    And, no one cares about Murphy anymore, but he did it to himself.

    Comment by Bruce — July 11, 2008 @ 7:44 am

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