Eddie Murphy and Eva Longoria Held Hostage in a Wild New Comedy Caper

Eddie Murphy and Eva Longoria reunite after The Pickup, playing a married couple trapped in a home-invasion hostage fiasco in Amazon MGM Studios comedy Attachment Parenting. Expect ransom schemes, parental chaos, and rapid-fire bickering as the pressure rises.

Eddie Murphy and Eva Longoria are teaming up again, and yes, they’re playing a married couple again. The new one is called 'Attachment Parenting,' and it’s set up at Amazon MGM Studios. The hook: a parenting philosophy collides with a hostage situation. That’s a sentence I did not expect to write this morning.

The setup

Based on a short story by Julianna Baggott, 'Attachment Parenting' is in very early development. No writer, no director yet. Murphy and Longoria just shared the screen last year in the action-comedy 'The Pickup,' and now they’re jumping into a comedy with a weirder tilt: a hotel standoff, a crime boss, and a family therapy session that spirals.

Here’s the line the project is leading with:

"The movie 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."

Who’s making it

• Starring and producing: Eddie Murphy and Eva Longoria
• Producers: John Davis for Davis Entertainment; Charisse Hewitt-Webster for Eddie Murphy Productions; Jade Miranda and Cris Abrego for Longoria’s Hyphenate banner
• Side note: Davis also teamed with Murphy on Netflix’s 2025 documentary 'Being Eddie'

Where this fits for both of them

Murphy keeps his run with Amazon MGM going after 'Coming 2 America' and the holiday caper 'Candy Cane Lane.' He’s also set to dust off Donkey for 'Shrek 5.' Longoria, meanwhile, popped up in Prime Video’s holiday comedy 'Oh. What. Fun' in December and next plays the Ghost of Christmas Past in the musical comedy 'Christmas Karma' led by Kunal Nayyar.

It’s early days, but the concept is chaotic in a fun way. Married therapists, a mob family, one very stressful hotel stay—clean sheets will not save anyone here.