Watch Marlon Wayans' Audition for an Unmade Richard Pryor Biopic — complex.com

(NSFW) Back in 2010, Marlon Wayans was going to play Richard Pryor in a biopic that would've been produced by Chris Rock, and directed by Bill Condon (Chicago). But studios passed on the Rock version. Five years later, Mike Epps has been hired to play the late, great comic, Oprah Winfrey is set to play his grandma, Kate Hudson will play Pryor's wife and widow, and Lee Daniels (TV's Empire, Precious) will direct. But just as the new team is ramping up production, the audition tape that blew Rock away has landed online.

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