"Writer/director Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) is shopping his script "Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said?" to studios, reports Entertainment Weekly. Eddie Murphy is attached to star.

Sources tell the magazine that Fox Searchlight, the studio behind this year's big Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire, is interested in the film.

Condon had the Pryor biopic set up at The Weinstein Company but was able to pull it out when the indie outfit put it into turnaround."

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=53310

As many of you know fox searchlight has been on a roll for many years. People are actually putting things like "Unkown Fox Searchlight Movie" into their top 5 movies likely to be nominated for best pic next year. So the fact that they may be behind a Richard Pryor biopic tells me Eddie Murphy may be given a second chance at the Oscars. Bill Condon ain't that bad of a director either so I think this could be a serious contender in 2010 (or this year if he gets production going in time, which I doubt)

i don't think he'll get another nomination

I don't know, Richard Pryor was very beloved. I have a feeling he could be more of a contender than you think. It all depends on whether or not Murphy can do more than just mimic Pryor.

I hope not