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Richard Pryor Biopic Gets Back on Track as Lee Daniels Returns to Direct and Jay Z Is Set to Produce

October 6, 2016
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biopic, jay z, lee daniels, richard pyror, the Weinstein company, twc

Richard Pryor Biopic Gets Back on Track as Lee Daniels Returns to Direct and Jay Z Is Set to Produce

We guess that you should really keep your fingers crossed this time?

For so many years, plenty of people have justifiably tried to make a Richard Pryor biopic, but have gotten derailed for a multitude of reasons such as who owns the rights to his story and how they’re willing to let it be told. We thought that Lee Daniels stepping in and The Weinstein Company getting involved would finally see a movie based on the life of the legendary comedian reach the big screen. Yet, Lee Daniels, who was attached as director, had a scheduling conflict with his hit series Empire and he had to leave the project, once again, in limbo.

Though you should save your excitement for when you read the title of this movie on a marquee, it was announced that Daniels will return as director and, additionally, Jay Z will produce. There’s no way that this Pryor biopic isn’t getting made, right? Let’s hope, if it does indeed get released, that it does Pryor justice.

And Here’s That Obama Episode of WTF with Marc Maron

June 22, 2015
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dick gregory, marc maron, podcasting, president barack obama, richard pyror, wtf

It’s podcasting history right here.

Last Friday, President Barack Obama indeed came to Marc Maron’s garage, albeit a super safe version of Marc’s garage that was covered in pop up tents and a Secret Service detail to do an episode of WTF.

They chatted for just over around an hour in a conversation that, because it is podcasting and of the noted way that Maron conducts interviews, is more intimate and free flowing probably any interview that Obama has had. Thus, you get to go from talking about the tragedy in Charleston last week all the way to talking about Pryor and Dick Gregory.

Listen to this milestone for both podcasting and WTF with Marc Maron here.

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