Richard Pryor:  Is It Something I Said?

Marlon Wayans is scheduled to play Richard Pryor in the long-awaited film biopic of the comedian's life.  Adam Sandler will be producing the film under his Happy Madison production company at Sony Pictures.  Eddie Murphy was assumed to be taking on the role of Pryor but had creative differences with the powers-that-be over the direction of the project.  As the hunt was on for a new actor, writer and director of the film, Bill Condon, saw Wayans re-create a Pryor monologue at the audition and the deal was sealed.