Eddie Murphy, Brett Ratner team for Netflix movie “Soul Soul Soul”June 7, 2016 - 11:13 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Netflix is developing the comedy Soul Soul Soul: The Murray Murray Story, The Hollywood Reporter revealed. Chris Case, who previously worked on TV series Legit and co-created Yahoo's Sin City Saints, will write the script. The film is a fake documentary about an iconic '60s soul singer named Murray Murray. After a hot new artist samples his hit 1962 song, Murray attempts to get his old band back together in the hopes of taking down hip-hop. Eddie Murphy and Brett Ratner are negotiating to star and direct, respectively. Sources say they may wait to see the script before deals move forward. Murphy and Ratner would be reuniting after working on 2011’s Tower Heist together, and were at one time attached to collaborate on Beverly Hills Cop 4. Brian Grazer and Tyler Mitchell will produce. Case co-created Sin City Saints, the basketball-themed series for Yahoo, and has a single-camera comedy project about an ex-NFL player who marries his Bohemian girlfriend at Fox. He has previously written for Malibu Country, Retired at 35 and Reba. Ratner most recently directed Hercules, and is attached to helm The Libertine, starring Johnny Depp. Murphy’s recent films include A Thousand Words and Mr. Church opposite Britt Robertson. Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |