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The Wheels Are Turning on 'Beverly Hills Cop 4'
Filed under: Action », Comedy », Paramount », Remakes and Sequels »
What with Rocky, Rambo and John McClane making late comebacks, it only makes sense that we'd get a new visit from Axel Foley. If producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has his way, we'll be seeing Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop 4 some time relatively soon. (Yes, even after that third one. Ugh.)The producer told ComingSoon.net that while they haven't officially hired any writers yet, they've been consulting with folks and trying to hash out what the infamous cop's next adventure might be like: "We have not hired a writer yet, but we've been analyzing the franchise and asking lots and lots of people about Axel Foley. 'What do you love about Axel and what would you want to see with an Axel Foley movie?' I think we have enough information now that we'll probably be hiring a writer in the next four to eight weeks and taking a good shot at it."
The original Beverly Hills Cop (1984, Martin Brest) still stands as one of the mega-blockbusters of all time ($234 million, domestic). The first sequel (Tony Scott, 1987) was more of the same, right down to the profit margin ($153 million). The wholly unnecessary and frankly terrible second sequel (1994, John Landis) pretty much killed the franchise ($43 million) ... until now, it seems. Despite the fact that I only like the first BHC flick, I'd probably be open to a third sequel. If I have to choose between Beverly Hills Cop 4 or Norbit 2, well, that's not a very tough decision. (Knowing Eddie, we'll probably get both of those movies.)
Review: Four
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"China is the future," the tired-looking government bureaucrat says to the female advertising executive
over cigarettes and vodka in a run-down Moscow bar. "You think so?" she replies, intrigued. "I'm sure of
it," he says, proceeding to lay down statistics about the inexhaustible Chinese labor pool. This is the most
interesting pretext he can come up with for talking the woman into bed, and it runs out of steam quickly. A second man,
sitting to right of the woman, smokes his cigarette and waits patiently for his turn to try. When the woman (Marina Vovchenko) finally turns her attention to him, he begins to spin
a horror story. He is a military scientist who knows of the existence of a grisly Soviet-era program for cloning human
beings. His story is rich with detail; as he talks, his eyes dart back and forth behind the cigarette smoke, as if he's
reading off the pages of his memory. She is captivated. But is he telling the truth? Is anyone? By this point in Four, director Ilya
Khrzhanovsky has already put the whole world on a slant, so nothing is certain.
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