More sequel news: the long-discussed fourth sequel to Beverly Hills Cop has taken a step closer to actually getting made. If you haven’t seen the original, you should. The film starred Eddie Murphy and co-starred Judge Reinhold and John Aston, all at the height of the 1980s glory. And it introduced us to Bronson Pinchot and a newish Paul Reiser. It was funny, made even more so by Eddie’s comedic genius, but gritty enough to still be a compelling cop-story. And it had one of the greatest soundtracks to come out of that era, including its Grammy winning score, Axel F. The film spawned two sequels, both starring Eddie and both being critically underwhelming. The second sequel made money, at least, but the third did not. So, after Paramount flat out cancelled the planned reboot and took the plans for BHC4 out of rotation, they gave Netflix a one-time license to make it for them. Huh.
Netflix has picked up the rights to make a sequel to Beverly Hills Cop, with Eddie Murphy set to star and Jerry Bruckheimer set to produce, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
The project comes after a one-time licensing deal between Netflix and Paramount to produce the fourth edition of the Beverly Hills Cop franchise.
Viacom CEO Bob Bakish on an analyst call Thursday said the licensing deal between Paramount and Netflix “will produce a new film based on an iconic IP and further expands our relationship with this important original production client.”
The most important part of that story is that Eddie is set to come back. The second most important is that Bruckheimer is producing. He did not produce BHCIII and I think it showed (that and John Landis’ self-indulgent direction). Do we need this sequel? No. Honestly, I’d rather just re-watch the original. But, as we’ve discussed before, Eddie is back, so this would be the right time to move forward on it. Dolomite is My Name is getting a lot of attention, and I don’t know about you, but I am beside myself waiting for his return to SNL as a host in December. Plus, he has two other highly anticipated sequels, Coming 2 America and Triplets, opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, if Ivan Reitman ever gets around to putting that together. So if they must do another sequel to BHC, I think Netflix is the right way to go – focus more on the story and (hopefully) getting as many original elements from the first as possible. I guess I’ll just cross my fingers and wait.
As I mentioned, Eddie is filming a sequel to Coming to America. I don’t know how many of you saw this, but there was a small morsel of wonderfulness that happened recently at the Tyler Perry Studios where that project is being filmed. Will Smith, who is there filming a Bad Boys sequel, videoed his visiting Eddie on set and gifted us all with this moment that also included Wesley Snipes, Martin Lawrence and Tracy Morgan. When Will is at a loss for words at the end – that just hits you in the heart:
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I’m watching Eddie Murphy in My Name is Dolemite on Netflix. He is fabulous and he can really act. Who knew? He blends comedy and drama is he is really, really good.
Just watched it, and it’s hands down my favorite film this year!
He’s so good in it and the story is just amazing!
Eddie has always been a very good actor and he started out as a stand up comedian. Check out YouTube for his standup stuff but be warned its not for the faint hearted.
BHC is a classic! My parents took me with them to see it in the theater, and I was pretty young. All I remember from that experience was being really surprised my parents would take me to a movie with so many bad words. Fast forward to my high school years where I rediscovered it. My friends and I are always like, “look man, I’m not falling for no banana in my tail pipe!” Or serge, “no I cannot, it’s serious!”
The movie is actually called “Dolemite is my name” it’s a really good movie and the cast is great.
Yeah I’m with you the first BHC was my favorite. I think Axel’s boss in that movie was a real life cop.
There was a “third”?
Axel Foley!!! Had such a huge crush on him. 🤦♀️
48 Hours with Nick Nolte is my favorite Eddie movie. I’ll watch this if it comes out.
Beverly Hills Cop was A HUGE DEAL. Eddie Murphy was just flat out FUNNY.
When MTV did decade awards (there was no awards show for such a thing) at the end of the 1980s, Beverly Hills Cop was the winning movie of the decade.
The second one was pretty good too- bonus Brigitte Nielson.
The 3rd one was garbage.
I love that Eddie has decided to come back to us!
I don’t think we really need any sequels but whatever he wants to do.
I watched just about everything he’s ever starred in and if you haven’t seen it
yet, check out his episode with Jerry Seinfeld in Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
‘Dolemite is my name’ is so funny and so good. Eddie at his best.