You can forget about seeing Eddie Murphy’s name on an Oscar ballot sheet again any time soon (and scrap your plans to reunite with Axel Foley next year - that's as likely to come off as a steel chastity belt) – the family-frendly funnyman has signed for another one of the bloody ‘talking animal’ movies, according to Risky Business.

Nope, it's not “Dr. Doolittle 6” (there is 5 of those things now, isn’t there?! - - only smart thing Murphy has done all decade is pass on the opportunity to be in them all), but Paramount’s “The Misadventures of Fluffy”. Yes, I typed the title right. And yes, feel free to leave this page and head onto another news story if it’ll help with the queasiness. Actually.... wait. It may interest you to know that this ‘talking animal’ movie is being conceived as an ‘R rated’ piece..... which, yes folks, suggests Murphy may indeed be telling a talking lama to go fuck a stump. That's got to be better than Norm MacDonald as a shaggy dog, yeah!?

Murphy’s already in bed with Paramount, what with “Beverly Hills Cop 4” in development (the trade confirms new writers are being sought for the project), so suppose he might as well do something for the Melrose Avenue bunch while he’s waiting for that project to finally inch forward. Which it doesn’t seem to be. And I wonder if it’s got anything to do with Brett Ratner, Skunk, or ''Imagine That''.