Out promoting his upcoming drama, Mr. Church, longtime Hollywood heavyweight Eddie Murphy spoke to Mashable about the chances of him ever starring in a comic book movie. Said Murphy, "I’m kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I’d have to be like the voice of reason or somebody. “Don’t do that, super-fellow! Or we need such-and-such.” I would do a superhero movie if it was funny and we were making fun of superhero movies and I figured out how to do something funny." It sounds like Murphy wants to be the Lucius Fox to someone's Batman. Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy suddenly becomes very different with Murphy in the role instaed of Morgan Freeman.
While he did flirt with superhero movies during his earlier years( he was nearly Robin in his younger days and was more recently rumored for the role of The Riddler) it sounds as if Murphy thinks that ship has sailed. "But even I don’t buy me flying in with a cape on and you know, f#%king everybody up, having lasers shoot out. See this? Doesn’t this look like bulls*&t? What would you call this? Who would I be?"
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