Nick Offerman, Robin Thede, and Chris Redd have been forged in Sweet Cane Lane, a brand new vacation film from Eddie Murphy set to drop subsequent yr on Prime Video. Sweet Cane Lane is the primary film in a three-picture first-look cope with Murphy, whose Coming 2 America dropped on the streamer within the early days of the pandemic. Offerman, Thede, and Redd be a part of a forged that already contains Genneya Walton, Madison Thomas, and Thaddeus J. Mixson. Tracee Ellis Ross (Black-ish) and Jillian Bell (Brittany Runs a Marathon) had been the primary names added to the forged after Murphy.
Based on Collider’s report on the casting, the film is written by Kelly Youthful (Raya and the Final Dragon, Encanto) and can draw inspiration from vacation experiences from Kelly’s personal childhood.
Sweet Cane Lane might be produced by Brian Grazer, and Reginald Hudlin, who’ve collaborated with Murphy on initiatives going again to 1992’s Boomerang. Hudlin, a producer and former BET govt who has labored intermittently within the comics business for years, will function director. Manufacturing has already began on the movie, which is filming in Los Angeles. Amazon Studios are producing, together with Murphy’s Eddie Murphy Productions and Grazer’s Think about Leisure.
There isn’t any official synopsis or launch date for Sweet Cane Lane but.
Murphy can subsequent be seen in You Individuals, a brand new comedy from Netflix out quickly.
In You Individuals, “a brand new couple and their households discover themselves analyzing fashionable love and household dynamics amidst clashing cultures, societal expectations and generational variations on this comedy from Kenya Barris.”
It is seemingly that Sweet Cane Lane might be a extra family-friendly film than lots of Murphy’s comedies, and it could be fascinating to see how the viewers reacts to that, since a few of his hardcore followers battle with it.
“We made a film that was not essentially sure by our ranking,” stated Coming 2 America director Craig Brewer when that film was launched. “But it surely’s humorous as a result of I observed that, you recognize, I am like all people else, I will take a look at Twitter and on-line, and folks going, ‘Oh my God, what a travesty. This film’s PG 13 they usually’ve ruined it.’ However I might simply argue that that is probably not true. In the event you’re actually a fan of the primary Coming to America … it has a little bit little bit of this fairy story theme. However the fairy story factor within the first film that was so nice was that Eddie’s Akeem was very harmless and naive and delicate, however he got here to Queens and Queens was not. [laughs] and he cherished all the things that was even terrible about Queens. And that was the humor in it.”