Eddie Murphy to Write and Star in Alien Abduction Comedy

So apparently Brett Ratner's upcoming film Tower Heist was originally planned as a Oceans 11 type movie with an all black cast that would include comedians such as Chris Rock, Chris Tucker and a few others who would devise a plan to rob a Donald Trump type character. That was the film Eddie Murphy was trying to get made, and that obviously didn't end up happening. 

Murphy hasn't given up on his dream of making another all black comedy though. In a recently interview with Rolling Stone he reveled his plan for an alien abduction comedy that he will write and star in. From Rolling Stone...

"I still want to do something like that”, Murphy says, adding that he had Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Tracey Morgan and Martin Lawrence all lined up for that first incarnation of Tower Heist. "I have this idea called ‘Jamal and Tyrell and Omar and Brick and Michael’s Wack-Ass Weekend about this group of guys who get abducted by aliens on the way to the fights. I’m writing that now.”

This is a great group of comedians, and I think it would be awesome to see them up on the big screen together fighting off a gang of aliens that have abducted them. This could be a fun movie, and I'm waiting to see if Murphy can still pull off great comedy after all of his years of bad family comedy. I'm sure he's still got it within him, he just needs to find it, and maybe we'll start seeing it again soon. I also have to say that's a hell of a long ass movie title!

When asked about hosting the Oscars and the opening number Murphy did say, “I should come out in my red leather suit" which would be so awesome! Murphy also went on to talk about his signature laugh and why he doesn't do it anymore...

I don’t laugh like that, somehow it doesn’t come out. It’s weird to change something that’s as natural as that. But it started out as a real laugh, then it turned into people laughing because they thought my laugh was funny, and then there were a couple of times where I laughed because I knew it would make people laugh. Then it got weird. People came up to me and said, ‘Do that laugh’ or if you laugh, someone turns around and goes ‘Eddie?’. I just stopped doing it.

That's actually kind of sad, but ya gotta do what you gotta do. For those of you not familiar with the laugh here ya go...