Keegan-Michael Key Joins Eddie Murphy in 'Dolemite Is My Name!'

Wesley Snipes, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson and Tituss Burgess are set for the Netflix feature.

Keegan-Michael Key has nabbed a key role opposite Eddie Murphy in Dolemite Is My Name!, Netflix's biopic of pioneering comedian and blaxploitation film producer Rudy Ray Moore.


The movie is already shooting in Los Angeles with Wesley Snipes, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson, Tituss Burgess, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and T.I. on the call sheet.

Moore has been referred to by some as the Godfather of Rap for his reciting of raunchy, sexually explicit rhymes in his comedy, often depicting pimps, prostitutes, players and hustlers, according to his obituary in the Los Angeles Times.

Key, who starred with Jordan Peele in the duo's Comedy Central breakout, Key and Peele, next appears in Fox's The Predator, the sci-fi action reboot from Shane Black, and returns for season 2 of Netflix's Friends From College.