Romeo San Vicente • 11-29-24
George Takei Eddie Murphy, his ‘Dreamgirls’ director and the P-FunkWhen one speaks of the gay sensibility in cinema, one is necessarily talking about queer filmmaker Bill Condon’s 2006 showstopper of a musical cake, Dreamgirls.
It was the movie that brought Eddie Murphy a truly meaty dramatic role and an Academy Award nomination.It makes perfect sense, then for the director and star to reteam for yet another music-based film, an untitled biopic of the legendary George Clinton with a script by Virgil Williams, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Mudbound.
Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic collective pushed every kind of psychedelic/R&B/rock boundary in the 1970s with still-beloved hits like “Flashlight.” And since Murphy is no stranger to musical performance himself, to headline this project seems like the perfect collaboration.
It’s still early in development with no other details announced, but there’s no doubt the supporting cast is going to be special, and, who knows, maybe Oscar lightning will strike twice. Kaitlyn Dever shooting ‘See You When I See You’Queer actor Kaitlyn Dever came out in high school as her career was in its early days.
