“Today, in a press conference, Jabootu stated firmly, ‘I have NOTHING to do with this’…”

Updated on November 19, 2009 By Ken Begg 17 Comments

Man, I thought the bullet point title was scary…then I saw the rest!

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Eddie Murphy in The Misadventures of Fluffy

Risky Business is reporting that Eddie Murphy is attached to produce and could potentially star in The Misadventures of Fluffy, a new buddy comedy that’s been set up at Paramount.

Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly sold the pitch for the R-rated comedy and will write the script. The project is described as a road trip film through New York featuring talking animals.

Paramount was already working with Eddie Murphy business, as writers are currently being sought for the studio’s Beverly Hills Cop 4.

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  • KeithB

    I think Sally Field might be available.

  • Ericb

    An R rated comedy featuring talking animals? Uh, that sounds a kinda sick.

  • Blackadder

    Why?

  • KeithB

    Been done: “Fritz the Cat” by Bakshi.

  • Mr. Rational

    I only see this working if one of the critters is an ugly, stout little mole with a preference for…relating to younger animals. We could call him “Roman Mole-anski.”

    I’d better stop talking before I give them ideas.

  • Blackadder

    Seriously: WHY make these movies? Is the public really demanding a fourth Beverly Hills Cop movie and a toilet humor talking animal buddy comedy?

  • Ericb

    “Why”

    Maybe I just have a dirty mind but the idea of raunchy comedy with animals (we’er talking Eddie Murphy here) just makes me think of that CSI episode with the fuzzies.

  • At the risk of throwing out my credibility… furries, not fuzzies.

    And I fear that that’s exactly what they’re going to use to base this off of. *sighs and shakes my head*

    Of course, can you really be too surprised? Babe was a success, Babe 2 was a success, Dr. Doolittle was a success – mix it in with letting Eddie Murphy go *completely* off the hook, and how could it *possibly* go wrong?

    The sad thing is, it really can’t. It’s going to be a commercial success. It just really, really, really shouldn’t be.

  • I’m going to go out on a limb and declare that in fact there is every chance that this WON’T be a commercial success. It is possible for a movie to be So Bad it fails, despite Hollywood’s blessing.

    Look at The Adventures of Pluto Nash.

  • Chad R.

    I will NOT look at The Adventures of Pluto Nash! Isn’t it enough that you made me look at Nightmare City?!

  • P Stroud

    I’m afraid that Jabootu’s denials have no plausibility. His influence is obviously all over this. And, frankly, from the last few movies Eddie Murphy’s done it’s a near certainty that he has become a full fledged acolyte of the Horned One. Or has no one seen “Daddy Day Camp?” Tell me that Jabootu didn’t have his horns in that one.

  • Ericb

    Except that jabootu usually avoids “comedy.” I sense a much darker force at work here.

  • Mr. Rational

    P…and believe me, I’m not proud that I know this…but it’s called “Daddy Day Care.” And I can testify that Jabootu had nothing to do with it. His influence is usually more benign.

  • I don’t think Jabootu’s influence is ever benign. And anyway, Nightmare City was PROFITABLE. That in fact makes it BETTER than Pluto Nash, right?

    You should be praising me, not jeering.

  • KeithB

    There was “Daddy Day Care” *and* “Daddy Day Camp.” Eddie Murphy wasn’t in “Day Camp” – so maybe he avoided Jabootu once, but…

    (PS, I liked “Day Care”, it was formulaic, but not too bad, a nice turn-your-brain-off time waster. It would have been a good “made for TV” movie.)

  • Beverly Hills Cop 4?(…shudders….) I would say that should quit while there still ahead, except they blew that when they made the third one!

  • Elizabeth

    Dear Eddie Murphy,

    Shit like this is why you don’t have an Oscar for Dreamgirls.

    Love,
    Hollywood