I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Doing Beverly Hills Cop 4 is a stupid idea. The movies got progressively worse as the series went on and made less and less money. TAKE THE HINT!!!! PEOPLE LOST INTEREST! And as for Eddie Murphy (let’s set aside how much of a Jerk I think he is for the moment), this is a bad career move. He’s just coming off of an Oscar Nomination… it’s an amazing opportunity to jump on something fresh… or to get back to his harder comedy stylings… not a time to fall back on a franchise that ran it’s course and was run into the ground over 10 years ago. MOVE ON!
But, even if you HAD to do a Beverly Hills Cop 4… you’ve got to at least get Judge Reinhold back right? Right? RIGHT?!?!?!
Well… the good folks over at Moviehole give us this:
Unfortunately, di Bonaventura isn’t keen to bring back Axel Foley’s Beverly Hills cohorts, Judge Reinhold and John Ashton. “[That’s] not for me. If it was just my vote I think I would take Axel and just move him”. The producer also says you can expect a ‘different’ type of Foley this time around – because he’s no longer the “a guy who is really cocky at age 25”. The character would now be in his forties. “You have to figure out how Axel would evolve over 20 years, so it’s an interesting challenge”. Sorry, back up… did you say no Judge Reinhold? Isn’t this a “Beverly Hills Cop” movie?
This just seems to be compounding mistake upon mistake.
