Eddie Murphy Reveals He's Playing a Pivotal Role In a New Pink Panther Film Reboot

Legendary histrion Eddie Murphy is getting successful beforehand of the camera erstwhile again — and this time, it’s for a truly amusive role. The comedian precocious revealed helium is going to beryllium portion of an upcoming Pink Panther movie successful a pivotal role.

"And I'm going to beryllium — I'm Inspector Clouseau successful the adjacent Pink Panther," Murphy casually announced during an quality connected the Today amusement connected July 28. "Yeah, I'm the caller Clouseau.”

Today amusement co-anchor Al Roker went connected to inquire the comic if helium plans connected playing the iconic quality successful his classical French style, to which Murphy responded, "Maybe. Well, helium has to beryllium French, but helium could besides beryllium Haitian. I volition archer you, he's Black. He's Black, for sure."

Back successful May 2023, it was reported that Murphy was successful talks to prima successful a Pink Panther reboot movie with Sonic the Hedgehog manager Jeff Fowler astatine the helm, but it seems that peculiar mentation of the movie ran into problems getting disconnected the ground. We don’t person immoderate further specifics connected the much caller mentation Murphy mentioned conscionable yet, but lone clip volition tell.

The archetypal Pink Panther movie was released successful 1963, and Murphy’s relation — the silly yet pivotal Inspector Clouseau — was archetypal played by Peter Sellars, who went connected to reprise the relation for 5 sequel films. Sellars died successful 1980 astatine property 54, and from there, Steve Martin took connected the portion for 2 2000s sequels. The Pink Panther, a reboot movie released successful 2006, and it a consequent sequel, The Pink Panther 2, launched 3 years later.

As for Murphy, he’s presently moving connected Shrek 5, which volition get successful theaters astir Christmas adjacent year. Additionally, he’s starring successful enactment drama The Pickup, which hits Prime Video connected August 6.

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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.