Richard Pryor wants his movie back – you know what I’m sayin’? The iconic comedian has filed a lawsuit against director Penelope Spheeris over the first film that Pryor ever starred in, which he claims Spheeris has, or had, in her possession. The never-released 1968 comedy, about a white man who goes on trial for having raped a black woman, is best known as Uncle Tom’s Fairy Tales, but is variously titled Uncle Tom’s Tales and Bon Appetit. Copies of the early Pryor work were rumored to be non-existent after Pryor’s former wife supposedly shredded the negative due to her frustration with his constant work on the would-be opus. In a suit filed last week in Los Angeles Superior Court, Pryor says he put up the money for the production and hired Spheeris, then a film student, to help shoot and edit the envelope-pushing movie. He says that all negatives, positives, prints and soundtrack went missing from his house in the mid-1980s – around the time he was recovering from a free-basing incident gone awry and his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis.