Beverly Hills Cop IV on the cards
Its the laugh everyone mimicks. Eddie Murphy with his notorious guffaw, which quite likely had a helping hand in his casting as the donkey in shrek?
Anyway, after two hugely successful films in the 80's under Bruckheimer, the franchise slipped considerably into a quagmire of disinterest at the third movie which Bruckheimer had nothing to do with. I blame the movie's flop on it not being made in the 80's, which is where these films truly belong. Even though the movie was directed by John Landis of Lampoon and Blues Brothers fame, it was pretty ropey.
So what will the fourth do for us? Well, chances are it'll undergo a revamping. No doubt it'll try to capture the Action-Comedy Hero status that the character Axel Foley personified, but how far will they take it? Your guess is a good as mine at this stage. So what stage are we at? Well, its out to writers at the moment. We'll have to wait for dribbles of script to leak onto the net for any real concrete ideas as to where the franchise is going to go, but for now, we have some attached crew and cast.
Obviously, Eddie Murphey will return as Axel Foley. …and thats about as far as we get for cast (if only Stephen Berkoff hadn't been shot on his mole in the first flick, he was ace as Victor Maitland!). We do have Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Constantine, Doom and Four Brothers) attached to produce, and although this doesn't instantly make me sit up straight it might not be all that bad.
"Axel Foley is one of the great action-comedy characters, a character that Eddie loves. I'm lucky enough to help bring it back," di Bonaventura said. "This genre is missing from the landscape."
Well, after BHC III, no wonder its been missing Lorenzo!
Variety had the news first allegedly, but IESB was the source I found first.
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