Axel Foley is coming back to Beverly Hills. After a reboot didn’t fit into CBS TV schedules, Eddie Murphy and Paramount Pictures announced they will be making another Beverly Hills Cop entry for the big screen. The script will done by Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec, who wrote Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol and the remake of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Beverly Hills Cop started as an Eddie Murphy vehicle back in 1984. Murphy was riding high after his stint on Saturday Night Live and 48 Hours with Nick Nolte made him a household name. The comedian from Queens riffed as a wise ass Detroit cop following corpses to the West Coast. The first Beverly Hills Cop was directed by Martin Brest. It was an instant blockbuster and the sequel, directed by Tony Scott, did just as much business. The third entry reunited Murphy with John Landis in 1994, when Murphy was Paramount’s biggest box office star. All together the three movies pulled in $750 million and big anticipation for a fourth entry.
The franchise almost went small-screen with a reworking that would have focused on Axel Foley’s son. Sony Pictures shot a pilot with Brandon T. Jackson starring and Eddie putting in appearance. It tested well, but CBS passed on it. But Paramount noticed how well it did with the audience and started the ball moving for a new movie. Murphy is 52 now and it looks like he’ll be in it so it can be passed on to a new generation of wise ass Detroit cops in fish-out-of-water stories. Maybe they can pull Detroit out of bankruptcy.
After making Tower Heist with Murphy, Brett Ratner told Collider "Eddie and I are even setting up some more of his ideas. I’m hoping that we have a long, fruitful relationship. We’re both still very young, believe it or not. Eddie’s only 50 years old, so I think we have a little bit of time to come up with a great Beverly Hills Cop.”
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