Eddie Murphy’s Coming 2 America heading straight to streaming | Entertainment

Eddie Murphy’s ‘Coming 2 America’ is heading straight to streaming.

In keeping with Selection, Paramount has offered the sequel to the 1988 comedy to Amazon Studios and it’ll hit the streaming service in December.

The ‘Dolemite Is My Identify’ star has reprised his position as Prince Akeem within the movie, which comes 32 years after the unique, and Murphy beforehand insisted followers will not be disenchanted with the movie as they’ve gone “above and past”.

Within the unique, Eddie’s character travels to New York from a fictional African nation to flee an organized marriage and discover an American spouse.

The sequel, which is about after the occasions of the primary movie, sees Akeem set to turn out to be king of Zamunda and he discovers he has a son in America named Lavelle (Jermaine Fowler), who he knew nothing about.

The plot continues: “Honouring his royal father’s (James Earl Jones) dying want to groom this son because the crown prince, Akeem and Semmi (Arsenio Corridor) set off to America as soon as once more.”

Murphy stated: “Lots of people have this expectation, like individuals would say to me after they discovered I used to be doing it, ‘Do not f*** that film up.’

“So we have gone above and past what anyone would suppose. I am actually, actually proud of it.”

‘Coming 2 America’ is directed by Craig Brewer, one thing that the filmmaker admitted was a dream come true for him as he’s such an enormous fan of the unique film.

He stated: “Every single day I simply wish to return in a time machine and discuss to my 16-year-old self and say, ‘You will by no means guess what you are going to be doing sooner or later.'”

Tracy Morgan and Wesley Snipes additionally star within the film.

‘Coming 2 America’ is the most recent Paramount film to be offered to a streaming service as a substitute of releasing within the cinema.

‘The Trial Of The Chicago 7’ and ‘The Lovebirds’ went to Netflix, whereas ‘With out Regret’ was purchased by Amazon.