Eddie Murphy used to be hilarious. His stand up comedy was great, everybody loved the Beverly Hills Cop franchise, and he was just generally known as a funny guy. He shows glimpses of that humor as Donkey in the Shrek movies. As far as his live action movies go, Eddie Murphy hass been flopping for a long time, which is why nobody besides him really has an interest in a third Nutty Professor movie.
His more recent live action films have included Norbit, Meet Dave, and The Adventures of Pluto Nash. They were all terrible. Nobody gets excited about Eddie Murphy movies anymore unless he is a talking donkey in them. And even that has pretty much run its course. Eddie Murphy has been working on the script for the third Nutty Professor movie, but as of yet no studio has picked it up. It is more of a passion project for Murphy. I would be surprised if a studio gambled on this script to see if Eddie Murphy can be funny again, chances are the Nutty Professor series is dead and buried. Eddie Murphy just needs to let it go and just start doing cameos in various movies with witty one-liners. I thinking his leading role days are well behind him.
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