Edward Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American actor, comedian, and singer.
Murphy was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984. He has worked as a stand-up comedian and was ranked No. 10 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.
In films, Murphy has received Golden Globe Award nominations for his performances in 48 Hrs., the Beverly Hills Cop series, Trading Places, The Nutty Professor, and Dolemite Is My Name. In 2007, he won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of soul singer James "Thunder" Early in Dreamgirls.
All the Ways ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ Pays Homage to the 1984 Original
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER WARNING: This story mentions major spoilers for “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F,” now streaming on Netflix.
Axel Foley is back in Beverly Hills, and so is Eddie Murphy. “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” director Mark Molloy set out to make a film with the same feeling and tone as the 1984 classic “Beverly Hills Cop” and its 1987 sequel, “Beverly Hills Cop 2.” He calls the latest film in the franchise, “My love letter to the first two films.” Molloy recruited Jahmin Assa, the film’s production designer, to pay tribute to those earlier chapters in numerous ways.
Assa’s goal was to create something that made “Los Angeles feel timeless and as fresh as it did in the 1980s,” and that included shutting down city streets in Detroit and Los Angeles to finding the perfect location to execute a 1980s-style mansion shootout for the film’s third act, and crash landing a helicopter in Beverly Hills. The Heat Is On The film opens with Foley back in Detroit sitting behind the wheel of his 1970s blue Chevy Nova as Glenn Frey’s “The Heat is On” plays.
That callback to the original started on the page in the script by co-writers Will Beall, Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten. Frey’s song opened the original film, and by bringing it back here, Molloy said, “I wanted the audience and fans of the franchise to think, ‘This is exactly where I want to be.'” In the big action sequence that follows, Axel drives a snowplow through the streets of Detroit in pursuit of the criminals he’s chasing.
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