Screenwriting duo Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski talk with Mark Olsen about the film “Dolemite is My Name” starring Eddie Murphy as Rudy Ray Moore.
Screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski have been working together for years as a writing team, starting when they were roommates back in the ’80s. They’re known for writing films featuring eclectic characters, including “Ed Wood,” “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” “Man on the Moon,” “Big Eyes” and their latest, “Dolemite Is My Name.”
“We like telling stories of completely passionate people with what’s kind of a bad idea,” Alexander told Times film writer Mark Olsen in this week’s episode of “The Reel” podcast. “And so they’re pushing a very big rock up a very steep hill and everyone in society is saying, ‘Just stop it. Just give up, just turn around and go the direction the rest of us are going.’ But our person says, ‘No, no, no. This is just something that’s important to me. And I’m going to keep pushing this rock.
That passionate theme is explicitly clear in “Dolemite Is My Name,” the duo’s latest project, now streaming on Netflix. It stars Eddie Murphy as performer and underground sensation Rudy Ray Moore. But the development process for the movie actually started more than 15 years ago, when the writers were told that Murphy wanted to meet to talk about Moore.“We saw that there was the character of Dolemite and then there was the man. And they were very different people.
“We sort of thought, well, maybe we can put the band back together with Rudy. Maybe this is a moment where we can strike and sell it,” Alexander said. Karaszewski continued: “But we didn’t know if Eddie was still interested … and on top of that it had now been 20 years since he said the F-word in a movie.”“It was the whole Eddie package. We wanted to show off everything that’s great about Eddie and great about Rudy,” the writers said as they riffed off of each other’s enthusiasm.
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