Earlier this year, Eddie Murphy announced that he would be playing Inspector Clouseau, the bumbling French detective first portrayed by Peter Sellers in 1963, in an upcoming Pink Panther remake. It’s an idea that makes perfect sense on paper, seeing as how Murphy had a lot of success remaking another beloved 1963 comedy: Jerry Lewis’s The Nutty Professor. The Pink Panther film is one of several on Eddie’s agenda at the moment, with Shrek 5 and a George Clinton biopic also in the works. But there’s another project that he’s been hoping to get off the ground on top of that, and as fate would have it, it would also be a remake of a famous comedy from—you guessed it—1963.

Speaking to ET in 2024, Murphy expressed his desire to reunite onscreen with his Boomerang and Life co-star (and new in-la

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