The new trailer for A Thousand Words has Eddie Murphy facing a unique challenge. He has a gift for gab but he has to learn silence can be golden before his time runs outs.

In A Thousand Words, Murphy plays fast-talking literary agent Jack McCall. Jack has a golden tongue but he sometimes often stretches the truth a bit lies. After crossing paths with New Age guru Dr. Sinja, he’s forced to change how he does things when a magical Bodhi tree pops up in his backyard. Every time Jack speaks, a leaf falls from the tree. What happens when all the leaves are gone? Well, he supposedly dies but we know that won’t happen.

Maybe it’s just me but I think A Thousand Words might be a little behind the times. We’ve seen a similar set-up in Jim Carrey’s Liar, Liar, and it’s...