"The Honeymooners" star Mike Epps has been tapped to play Richard Pryor in a feature film on the comedian's life reports Variety.
Walter Hill, who directed Pryor in "Brewster's Millions," will helm, and Caleb Kane ("These City Walls") will pen the script. Pryor and his wife, Jennifer Lee Pryor, are producing. Project had languished at Universal under Martin Scorsese.
The earlier incarnation was developed for another accomplished standup, Damon Wayans, but Pryor felt the film would benefit with an actor who hadn't yet been stamped as a big star.
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