Richard Pryor's daughter is bringing her father's story to cinemas. Latigo Films and Inaugural Entertainment have acquired screen adaptation rights to Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor's memoir "Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word and Me," published by Simon & Schuster on 2 June 2026 (Deadline; Miami Times Online).

The book is not a conventional showbiz biography. Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, a history professor, originally set out to write a scholarly treatise on the n-word. She discovered the topic was inseparable from her relationship with her father — the comedian whose routines famously and controversially engaged with the word. The memoir draws on her earliest memories of Pryor through her days as a new college professor (Deadline).

Pryor's handwritten notebooks from his relationship with Elizabeth's mother were uncovered during the project. They contain raw material behind his legendary routines — notes, figurative sketches, and unfiltered reflections that had never been made public (Deadline).

The producers are David Lipper, Robert A. Daly Jr., Elizabeth Pryor, and Julie Merson. Daly Jr. and Pryor grew up together on the west side of Los Angeles. Kevin Weisberg is the CEO of Inaugural Entertainment. Latigo Films expects to announce a screenwriter and director attachment in the near term (Deadline).

Richard Pryor was an Emmy and five-time Grammy Award winner who received the first Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 1998. His film roles included Silver Streak, Stir Crazy, and Brewster's Millions. Producer David Lipper called Pryor "the biggest comedy star of the 1970s and 1980s with one box office hit after another" (Deadline).

What makes this adaptation stand out is its perspective. The story of Richard Pryor has been told many times, but this version comes through the eyes of a daughter who is also a scholar of the very language her father weaponised on stage. The discovered notebooks add a layer of primary material that most biopics never have access to.

No production timeline has been announced. The project is at the rights-acquisition stage, with creative attachments expected soon.