EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has Eddie Murphy poised to star in Blue Falcon, a two-hander action comedy. Studio acquired a script by Chad St. John, the the London Has Fallen scribe who most recently scripted the just-wrapped Alan Ritchson-starrer Motor City.
In Blue Falcon, Murphy will play a retired superspy who heads for the destination wedding of his estranged son, and finds himself in proximity with his archrival.
The film will be produced by Davis Films’ John Davis, Cliff Roberts through Syndicate Entertainment, and Murphy and Charisse Hewitt-Webster through Eddie Murphy Productions.
Murphy, who’s repped by WME, ML Management and Ziffren Brittenham, most recently starred in Netflix’s Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, and among the projects he’s got percolating is a reteam with Dreamgirls‘ Bill Condon on the life of Parliament Funkadelic founder George Clinton.
He also is set to return at Donkey alongside Mike Myers as Shrek and Cameron Diaz as Fiona in Shrek 5, with DreamWorks Animation setting a December 2026 release date.
St. John is repped by UTA, Syndicate and Hansen Teller.