Richard Pryor starred in Walter Hill's adaptation 'Brewster's Millions' as a minor league pitcher whose rich uncle dies and leaves him $300 million, if he can spend $30 million
Richard Pryor starred with John Candy in the 1985 remake of 'Brewster’s Millions.'
The comedian starred in Walter Hill's adaptation as a minor league pitcher whose rich uncle dies and leaves him $300 million, if he can spend $30 million:"Over the years, he told me several times 'Brewster's' was his favorite," says the director.has been a source for movies about money madness since 1902. The book has been adapted for the big screen 13 times, including a 1914 film by Cecil B.
"Richard Pryor and that premise seemed like a certain hit," says Frank Price, who in 1983 had just become president of Universal Pictures. "His career was peaking at that point." There had been other choices for the part: The film had been developed for director Peter Bogdanovich with John Ritter in the lead, and the movie's writers originally thought to make it with Bill Murray as an unemployed astronaut selling knockoff jeans in Manhattan.
he took on the comedy "so I wouldn't have to be staging a gunfight every 15 minutes." Production began a few years after the infamous night when Pryor, while freebasing cocaine at home, poured 151-proof rum on his clothes and lit himself on fire. He was also in the early stages of multiple sclerosis. "He was still recovering from what was called 'the accident,' " says Hill.
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