Eddie Murphy's BEVERLY HILLS COP 4 Moving Forward with 2 Directors
Paramount Pictures and producer Jerry Bruckheimer have been trying to get a fourth Beverly Hills Cop movie into production for years. It's been over 20 years since the third film was released, and they are banking on the fans wanting to see Eddie Murphy back in the role of Axel Foley.
It's been a long time since Murphy has made a film that has actually been good. The guy used to be so freakin' funny, and it would be great to see him back doing those fun edgy films again. Maybe Beverly Hills Cop 4 can bring that funny Murphy that we all love back again.
According to Variety, the studio has hired Belgian directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah to direct the film. I'm not familiar with these two guys at all, but they directed an award-winning drama called Black. Hey! They've gotta be better than Brett Ratner, who was attached to the project early on in development.
Their film Black centers on "a 15-year-old girl in a gang in Brussels who must choose between loyalty and love when she falls for a Moroccan boy from a rival gang." Even though it in no way resembles an action/comedy film, it was good enough to win an award and get them the directing gig.
When Ratner was on board to direct from a script by Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), the story revolved around Axel Foley returning to his native Detroit during the coldest winter on record. There's no word on if that's the general plotline they are going to go with, but it sounds fun.
Beverly Hills Cop was some of the funniest stuff that Murphy did, and I really hope that in this next installment the actor brings that hilarity back.