Eddie Murphy is in talks to take the role of The Pink Panther’s Inspector Clouseau, a comic figure made immensely popular by Peter Sellers in the 1960s and 70s.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Murphy is set to be cast in a new Pink Panther film directed by Sonic the Hedgehog’s Jeff Fowler. The film is described as a “live-action/CG hybrid … buddy cop movie”, with Murphy’s Clouseau teaming up with the cartoon Pink Panther that became popular as a result of a long-running series of film shorts and TV shows, after it was memorably featured in the first Pink Panther film’s opening credits.
