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Eddie Murphy to Play George Clinton in Biopic From ‘Dreamgirls’ Director


Eddie Murphy will portray George Clinton in an upcoming, untitled Bill Condon-directed biopic.

Although not many details have been made available about the currently untitled biopic, Deadline reports that Virgil Williams is writing a script for the film, based on an original draft by Max Werner. The script is set to be based on the funk musician’s 2014 memoir, Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard On You? “We ran a roadblock, went about a mile along the road, and came out into a small town where we saw all these fucking creatures walking around, zombies or mummies, hands up in the air and dead looks on their faces,” he wrote in the book.

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