In the pantheon of great Eddie Murphy movies, and there are a lot of them, one of the absolute best has to be Coming to America. It’s a hilarious movie, and one of Murphy's favorites of his own work. But actually making it was no joke for Eddie Murphy, who had a famously fraught relationship with director John Landis, one that apparently could have doomed the movie, had it not been for co-star Arsenio Hall.
Hall recently spoke with Esquire about his recently published memoir, in which he relays the story about the battle between Eddie Murphy and John Landis. Hall says he was in a hotel room in New York, apparently preparing for a threesome with two lady friends, when he received a call from the President of Paramount Pictures, who needed Hall to play peacemaker. Hall explained…
