‘Beverly Hills Cop 4’ Will Start Shooting After ‘Coming To America 2’, According To Eddie Murphy
By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 2, 2019 1:30 pm EST
Murphy dropped the Beverly Hills Cop 4 news to Collider, saying:
“Yeah that’s what we’re doing after Coming to America 2. We’re doing Beverly Hills Cop and then the plan is to get back on stage and do standup. That’s what I’ll be doing mostly is standup. These movies and Saturday Night Live it’s kind of like…I’m looking at it as a bookend. If I decided I wanted to stay on the couch forever, I ended it on a funny note.”
Released in 1984, the original Beverly Hills Cop was supposed to star Sylvester Stallone. But Stallone didn’t like the comedy in the script and decided to remove it and turn the project into a straightforward action movie. When that didn’t work out, Stallone walked, and turned the serious script into the gloriously trashy action film Cobra.
Murphy, who was still relatively new to his film career at the time, took over the lead role in Beverly Hills Cop, and the film, along with 48 Hours and Trading Places, helped turn him into an international movie star. Murphy played Axel Foley, a Detroit cop who heads to posh Beverly Hills during the course of a murder investigation. It was followed by Beverly Hills Cop 2 in 1987, and Beverly Hills Cop 3 in 1994.
I honestly don’t know what else the Beverly Hills Cop franchise can offer at this point, but after seeing Dolemite Is My Name, I’m just happy to have Murphy back in adult-oriented films again.
