New BEVERLY HILLS COP Movie Moves Into Development
As you know, Eddie Murphy was developing a Beverly Hills Cop TV series with Shawn Ryan (The Shield) and CBS. Barry Sonnenfeld (MIB) was brought on to direct, and it starred Brandon T. Jackson, Kevin Pollak, and David Denman. They shot the pilot, it tested well, but for one reason or another the network decided to pass on the show, and no other network jumped in to pick it up.
If you were looking forward to seeing the adventures of Axel Foley continue, don't worry, because according to Ryan, Paramount Pictures has put a new movie into development! Here are the tweets he sent out.
Sad to report that efforts to land Beverly Hills Cop pilot at another network have failed. This iteration is dead for now. (Cont...)
— Shawn Ryan (@ShawnRyanTV) July 20, 2013
Good news for fans of franchise is that the pilot tested so well, it has caused Paramount to put another #BHC movie into development.
— Shawn Ryan (@ShawnRyanTV) July 20, 2013
There's no information on what the movie will be about, but I guess there's a chance it could be the same storyline used for the TV series. It centers on "Axel Foley’s blue-collar police officer son, Aaron, who helps take down the criminal elements of the rich and famous in Beverly Hills while trying to escape the shadow of his larger-than-life father."
Before the TV series was even proposed, Murphy was trying to get a fourth movie off the ground. At one point Brett Ratner was attached to direct it. Are you excited to hear that we could actually get a Beverly Hill Cop 4?