Eddie Murphy to play George Clinton in Bill Condon’s biopic

Eddie Murphy will play George Clinton in the upcoming biopic, according to multiple reports Friday. The comedian will play the music legend in the film directed by Amazon MGM Studios Bill Condon.

Clinton shared the news on her Instagramcaptioning it with the “” emoji.

While few details are known about the untitled biopic, Deadline reports that Virgil Williams is writing the screenplay for the film based on Max Werner’s original draft. The script will be based on the funk musician’s 2014 memoir, Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard On You?

Rolling Stone described the book as “spectacular” as he shared details of parties with Sly Stone and zombie encounters with Parliament bassist Billy Bass Nelson.

“We passed the roadblock, walked about a mile down the road and came out into a small town where we saw all these bloody creatures walking around, zombies or mummies, with their hands up and dead expressions on their faces,” he wrote. in the book “We were scared the hell out of us,” he added, revealing that he actually ended up on the set of the George Romero film by accident. Night of the living dead.

The film will see Murphy reunite with Condon after the pair worked together in 2006 Dream girlsin which Murphy starred with Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Hudson and Beyoncé.

Actress Kathryn Davis, a Clinton supporter, reportedly brought the idea to Murphy. The film will tell the life story of the funk pioneer and how he founded the music group Parliament-Funkadelic.

The film will be produced by Davis, Greg Yolen and Murphy and John Davis’ own production companies. Clinton, 83, will executive produce the film alongside Charice Hewitt-Webster, Archie Ivey and Jeff Jampol.

Murphy is to play the next leading role Pickup with Keke Palmer and Pete Davidson, and Condon finishes Kiss of spider womanstarring Jennifer Lopez and Diego Luna.