20 Recent Casting Choices NOBODY Expected

20. Eddie Murphy - The Pink Panther

Eddie Murphy hasn't exactly been keeping himself super-busy in recent years, largely sticking to his bread-and-butter franchises with sequels to Coming to America, Beverly Hills Cop, and Shrek.

But the legendary funnyman dropped quite the bombshell recently when he revealed that he will be playing Inspector Clouseau in a new Pink Panther movie.

Wait, what?

Though Murphy's comedic chops are absolutely undeniable and he certainly has experience playing a police detective of dubious competence, it's tough to picture this one.

Sure, Murphy can probably do an intentionally awful French accent with the best of them, but playing a part that was made so iconic by Peter Sellers, and then reinterpreted with middling results by Steve Martin more recently, Murphy's comedic style seems like a totally different vibe.

We don't know many other details about the new Pink Panther yet, other than Murphy hinting that he may have Haitian origins, but it'll certainly be interesting to see his rendition of such an iconic character.