{"id":30764,"date":"2024-11-02T03:03:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T03:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/eddie-murphy-to-play-funk-legend-george-clinton-in-upcoming-biopic\/"},"modified":"2024-11-02T03:03:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T03:03:13","slug":"eddie-murphy-to-play-funk-legend-george-clinton-in-upcoming-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/eddie-murphy-to-play-funk-legend-george-clinton-in-upcoming-biopic\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Murphy to play funk legend George Clinton in upcoming biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-01\/M_EddieMurphy_110124.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Disney\/Randy Holmes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Eddie Murphy<\/strong> has reportedly signed on to play a funk music icon on screen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/music\/news\/eddie-murphy-george-clinton-biopic-bill-condon-amazon-1236197626\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Variety<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> reports that the actor\/comedian is set to star as <strong>Parliament-Funkadelic<\/strong> leader <strong>George Clinton<\/strong> in a biopic directed by <strong>Bill Condon<\/strong>, the same director who directed Murphy in <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Dreamgirls<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, a role that earned him an Oscar nomination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The film, which Murphy will also produce, will be based on Clinton\u2019s 2014 memoir <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain\u2019t That Funkin\u2019 Kinda Hard On You?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Clinton, who launched his funk career in the &#8217;70s as one of the founding members of the collective known as Parliament-Funkadelic, was inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. He and the band were also honored in 2019 with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney\/Randy Holmes Eddie Murphy has reportedly signed on to play a funk music icon on screen. Variety reports that the actor\/comedian is set to star as Parliament-Funkadelic leader George Clinton in a biopic directed by Bill Condon, the same director who directed Murphy in Dreamgirls, a role that earned him<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/eddie-murphy-to-play-funk-legend-george-clinton-in-upcoming-biopic\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,4,48],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}