Eddie Murphy and Eva Longoria have teamed up to star in Attachment Parenting, a comedy newly set up at Amazon MGM.
The company has preemptively picked up the short story by Julianna Baggott from Davis Entertainment and Eddie Murphy Productions.
Murphy and Longoria are attached to produce on top of starring via their respective companies along with veteran John Davis of Davis Entertainment, who is in the awards race this year with the feel-good Kate Hudson drama Song Sung Blue. The new project is a reunion for the three, who worked together on last year’s Amazon’s Murphy-starring action comedy, The Pickup.
Eddie Murphy Productions’ Charisse Hewitt-Webster will also produce, as will Jade Miranda of Hyphenate, the media company run by Longoria, its CCO, and CEO Cris Abrego.
With a vibe that throws back to another era of studio comedies, the project tells of a psychologist couple whose parenting philosophy is put to the ultimate test when they’re forced to counsel a crime boss’s dysfunctional family while being held hostage at a hotel.
The project is in the early stages of development and no writer or director are involved currently.
Baggott, who also writes under two pen names, is a bestselling novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet who has written more than 20 books. She also has a Hollywood component to her writing endeavors, and founded the production company Mildred’s Moving Picture Show. She has over 20 projects in development, among them Backwards, which sold to Netflix with Shawn Levy attached to direct; The Hider, which sold to Universal for Robert Downey Jr. and Team Downey; and Except You, co-written with Finneas Scott, which is in development with Maximum Effort at Fox.
Murphy is becoming an Amazon mainstay, having starred in a couple of the streamer’s hits in recent years. He last starred in Pickup with Pete Davidson and Keke Palmer, released by Amazon last year, and also starred in and produced 2023’s Candy Cane Lane for the company.
Longoria appeared opposite Murphy in Pickup, in which she played his wife. She also was part of the bold-faced ensemble cast of Amazon’s Christmas movie Oh. What. Fun. that streamed last year.
In addition to working with Murphy on Pickup, Davis also produced the comedian’s documentary Being Eddie, which debuted on Netflix last year. He was involved in producing 2025’s Predator: Badlands and Predator: Killer of Killers.
Murphy is repped by WME, ML Management, and Ziffren Brittenham. Longoria is repped by WME, Linden Entertainment, and Yorn, Levine. And Baggott is repped by WME, 3 Arts Entertainment, and BFBST
