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…the role is going to Eddie Murphy!
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The actor will reportedly star in and produce the biopic about the late singer Rudy Ray Moore, a role he’s been wanting to star in for “a decade”.
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Deadline reports, “Moore worked in a Hollywood record store in 1970 when he began hearing obscene stories of pimp and hustler named Dolemite. He started a club act where he became Dolemite. He then began generating records that mixed humor and a ghetto fantasy character, burnishing the legend. While too racy to be put on display in record stores, the records became a big inner city underground hit. The proceeds allowed Moore to finance the 1975 film Dolemite, which he starred in as a kung fu-capable pimp ghetto hero who stuck it to The Man. Moore followed with three sequels.”