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The long - awaitedBeverly Hills Cop 4finally is likely getting some adhesive friction as the film has landed a new director . Beverly Hills Copwas released in 1984 and focused on Detroit cop Axel Foley ( Eddie Murphy ) who visit Beverly Hills , CA , to lick a execution . The film launched Eddie Murphy into superstardom and was a massive box part success . It bring in $ 234 million and was the highest - grossing film of 1984 , even dumbfound out films likeIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom , Ghostbusters , andGremlins .
Two subsequence followed , Beverly Hills Cop IIin 1987 andBeverly Hills Cop IIIin 1994 . Since then , there have been multiple attempts to relaunch the property , including a failed television series that would have trace Axel ’s son , Arron , play by Brandon T. Jackson ( Tropic Thunder ) . After the series was invalidate , Paramount Pictures putBeverly Hills Cop 4into maturation with Murphy set to return , and in 2016 , futureBad Boys For Lifedirectors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah signed on to direct . In 2019 , it was annunciate that the labor would bereleased on Netflix , and it would be Murphy ’s follow - up picture show afterComing 2 America .
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According toDeadline , Beverly Hills Cop 4has sign up - and - coming director Mark Molloy to helm the project . Original directors El Arbi and Fallah reportedly quit the project in favor ofBatgirl , which just wrapped film . This will be Molloy ’s first lineament film as he ’s mainly stuck to commercials so far . No production start date is presently set for the motion picture .
Beverly Hills Cop 4will have a passel riding on it , both in term of Molloy as a first - meter music director and also for mavin Eddie Murphy . Once one of the biggest comedy star in the world , the actor had a raspy strand of dud at the box position in the 2000s and became a lot more selective in his roles . His vocation did receive a slight bouncing back with the Netflix filmDolemite Is My Name , which make incontrovertible reviews and a Golden Globe nomination for Murphy . The role player is now set to playGeorge Clinton in an upcoming biopic , and mate with the coming back of his most famous live - action dealership inBeverly Hills Cop 4 , the doer could see a major rejoinder .
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