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HBO Developing Marion Barry Biopic, Eddie Murphy Set To Star, Spike Lee To Direct (Deadline Hollywood)
In their latest collaboration, director Spike Lee and writer John Ridley have
teamed for an HBO biopic of Marion Barry, with Eddie Murphy attached to play
the larger-then-life former Washington D.C. mayor. The HBO Films project,
first reported by the Washington Post, is currently in development. Ridley is
writing the script based on several pieces of source material, including the
1994 book _Dream City_ by D.C. journalists Harry Jaffe and Tom Sherwood who
will serve as consultants. Lee on board to direct. The two are executive
producing with Murphy. HBO previously developed a Marion Barry biopic a decade
ago with Jamie Foxx attached to star and Chris Rock to executive produce, but
the project didn't go forward. Barry, currently a member of the Council of the
District Of Columbia, did two terms as a mayor of D.C., from 1979-91 and
1995-99, separated by a six-month stint in federal prison on drug charges that
stems from a video of him smoking crack cocaine. Lee and Ridley, who have been
developing a movie about the L.A. riots, recently partnered on HBO's drama
pilot _Da Brick_, which Ridley wrote an Lee is directing. The pilot is in
consideration ...
MACHINE MAN by Max Barry (book trailer)
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Grease (Original 1978 Motion Picture Soundtrack) $7.99 The movie is a 1970s take on 1950s musicals, providing all the kitsch anyone could hope for. It's John Travolta as Danny Zuko as Olivia Newton-John's pompadoured main squeeze, and the kids go crazy. Fresh from his astronomical success with Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, Bee Gee Barry Gibb penned the title track (sung by Frankie Valli). Sha Na Na is over-represented, and actress Stockard Channin... |
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