Cue the Theme Music: Axel Foley's Comin' Back
Filed under: Action, Comedy, Paramount, RumorMonger, Remakes and Sequels
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know you all started mentally humming the Axel F. theme when you read that headline, regardless of if you'd actually
pay money to go see a movie called Beverly Hills Cop 4, so let's keep this short and sweet: A source of
questionable veracity (London's The Sun) has indicated that animated ass extraordinaire Eddie Murphy will indeed show up to get paid for a third sequel in the
Beverly Hills Cop franchise.This series would make for one heckuva flaccid line graph:
Beverly Hills Cop (1984) -- $234 million in domestic box office -- and people liked it.
Beverly Hills Cop 2 (1987) -- $154 million -- and people tolerated it.
Beverly Hills Cop 3 (1994) -- $43 million -- and people pretty much hated it.
So now comes word that a new Axel adventure is on the horizon. Who would you get to direct the thing? (My vote is for McG ... or Woody Allen.) And would you have Murphy saying stuff like "I'm gettin' too old for this #@%*!" before kicking into that weird, braying laugh of his?
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5-02-2006 @ 12:36PM
RP said...
Of course Murphy would show up. His career IS Beverly Hills Cop, the question is if any of the money men would want to show up.
And going by current form (Scary Movie FOUR?), it wouldn't surprise me in the least.
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5-02-2006 @ 12:49PM
Josh Boelter said...
I think Lars von Trier should direct it.
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5-02-2006 @ 12:51PM
Da Weave said...
I'd rather see "Yet Another 48 Hours".
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5-02-2006 @ 1:11PM
Alex said...
Wait a minute! Eddie Murphy already made Beverly Hills Cop 4 ten years ago, only they changed cities and called it Metro.
People thought it sucked too.
Eddie, don't do this! Do another movie with Steve Martin again! Bowfinger was your only great film since Coming to America (not counting Shrek)! PLEASE!!!!
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5-02-2006 @ 1:14PM
Elrond Hobbert said...
As long as Eddie's character dies in the opening credits and then Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker investigate his murder, this will rock.
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5-02-2006 @ 2:35PM
The Jeremy said...
I vote to give the project to McG on the condition that he has to use his actual name in the credits. "McG" worked when he was a music video director, but it is seriously lame for a features director, just as "Pitof" is lame, or any of the other one-named French directors.
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