He’s a razor sharp comic known for his biting wit – and profanity laced tirades – so it makes perfect sense that Eddie Murphy’s monster comeback won’t be “Beverly Hills Cop 4” or “Inglorious Bastards,” or any of a dozen other projects he has been alternately promising and rumored for. It’ll be with…a silent movie?

Last month, Murphy told MTV News that for his next movie, “1000 Words,” he spends half the movie totally silent due to the fact that his character learns he only has 1000 words left before he dies.)

We don’t know the half of it, co-star Kerry Washington explained.

“Page 20,” Washington said of when in the script the film transitions into a more silent comedy. “By then it becomes a Charlie Chaplin film for Eddie Murphy. It’s hilarious.” Read more...