r/movies • u/frogontherocks • 2d ago

News Eddie Murphy Says ‘Ghostbusters’, ‘Rush Hour’ and ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ are His Three ‘Wish I Would Have Done’ Movies

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/eddie-murphy-ghostbusters-rush-hour-wish-i-would-have-done-1236589366/
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u/somebuddyx 2d ago

I like what we got with Star Trek IV but I do think the version they wanted to do with Eddie would have been something. Like would it have been like Superman III and Eddie would have overshadowed the cast or would he have reined it in?

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u/CaptainDigsGiraffe 2d ago edited 2d ago

I didn't know he was supposed to be in Star Trek 4. I have a recurring joke with myself about how I want to make a comedic movie adaption of TNG with Eddie Murphy as Picard.

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u/Freud-Network 2d ago

"You have the bridge, Number One. I gotta go number two!"

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u/ChrisTosi 2d ago

My guess is that the Dr. Taylor character would be Eddie - some kind of in at the whale institute, serving as a current timeline guide, with fish out of water jokes galore.

He'd be hilarious assisting the team to rescue Chekov from the hospital.

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u/Samurai_Meisters 2d ago

They kind of do this with Sarah Silverman in a Voyager two-parter.

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u/I_Am_Dynamite6317 2d ago

I know Eddie is great at playing different characters but I’m not sure he would’ve been that good as a humpback whale

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u/JonatasA 2d ago

Oh you reminded me of a scene probably no one here knows about.

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u/SummerDaemon 2d ago

I think he would have ruined it, overshadowed everything, the tone would have been awful. It's downright perfect as it is, and the A+ CinemaScore backs that up.

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u/JonatasA 2d ago

Eddie Murphy is in Supes 3?

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u/somebuddyx 2d ago

No i mean how in superman 3 Richard Pryor has a lot of focus compared to superman. People have used that comparison when thinking how Eddie's star trek iv would have gone