Eddie Murphy Teams Up With 'Driving Miss Daisy' Director for New Orleans-Set Drama 'Cook'

From Shadow and Act Wed Oct 22 2014, 17:57:53

It feels like it's been a long time since we last saw Eddie Murphy on the big screen doesn't it? I'm sure he's comfortable financially, and isn't exactly pressed to make new money by taking on almost every project that's offered to him, the way that it seems Samuel L. Jackson seems to (they don't call him the hardest working man in showboz for nothing - one of them anyway). So when Murphy does attach himself to a project, it immediately gets my attention. The last time we saw him on the big screen was in "Tower Heist" in 2011, 3 years ago. Although there was that terrible "A Thousand Words" which sat in limbo for years after it was made, until DreamWorks finally...

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