Ralph Bellamy, who played Randolph Duke, remembered a moment on set between himself, Don Ameche (who played his brother, Mortimer Duke), and Murphy in the makeup trailer on the first morning of shooting. "So they said, ‘What do you think about Eddie Murphy playing the Billy Ray Valentine part?’ And I of course said, ‘Who’s Eddie Murphy?’" (1982) hadn't come out yet, but they'd previewed it, and Eddie Murphy had previewed very well, and they thought, 'Ah this kid's going to be a star,'" Landis recalled of his discussions with Paramount Pictures. Richard Pryor was originally attached, but as director John Landis put it, he then "unfortunately set himself on fire." 4. IT WAS ORIGINALLY A RICHARD PRYOR/GENE WILDER VEHICLE TITLED BLACK AND WHITE. "You can imagine what they were like by, maybe, 2 p.m." 3. "The traders I met and hung out with here in L.A., because it was three hours behind New York, had their happy-hours very early in the day," Weingrod explained to NPR. THE SCREENWRITERS HUNG OUT WITH DRUNK TRADERS FOR THEIR RESEARCH. He presented the idea of brothers arguing the nature versus nurture debate to his writing partner, Herschel Weingrod, and the two went to work. "There were these two brothers who were both doctors who I would play tennis with on a fairly regular basis, and they were incredibly irritating to play with because they had a major sibling rivalry going, all the time about everything," screenwriter Timothy Harris explained. When the two find out about the bet, they seek revenge. So they decide to bet $1 on it and determine the winner by installing homeless con artist Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) in the old job at their firm held by Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd), who was set up to lose everything by the Duke brothers. ![]() In Trading Places, millionaires Randolph and Mortimer Duke can't agree on the whole nature versus nurture theory.
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