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finally found his own style. In 1945 he joined Eddie Condon's house band, and those long nights and hard musical pace at Condon's club ...

Marlon Wayans May Star In A Richard Pryor Biopic

, However, claims Wayans is already in "advanced discussions" to play the part. Again, to my surprise, I'm crossing my fingers that he gets the gig.

Interestingly enough, both reports also note that the film is no longer at Paramount Pictures. A conflict with the studio is what caused Murphy to drop out of the picture. Now Adam Sandler 's Happy Madison is producing the film, which was written by Pryor and his wife, Jennifer Lee Pryor, and Sony is set to distribute. This would seem like good reason for Murphy to be interested again, yet hopefully everyone has realized that he's simply too old and doesn't look enough like his old friend, either.

Even though "Is it Something I Said?" will portray the life of a brilliant funnyman, and even though it's being produced by Adam Sandler's production company, the biopic is likely to be a very serious movie filled with themes such as race, hard drug addiction, suicide and illness. And for all that, be warned that the star of "Little Man" could very well earn an Oscar nomination if his Pryor imitation is as good as reported.

Do you think Marlon Wayans will do a good a job as Richard Pryor? What part of Pryor's life or career do you hope to see Wayans tackle most prominently in the film?