Eddie Murphy and Jerry Bruckheimer Are Already Developing ‘Beverly Hills Cop 5’: ‘We Have a Couple of Stories in Mind’
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Eddie Murphy remembers quite clearly why, back in 1984 when he was just 23 years old, he didn’t think the first “Beverly Hills Cop” was going to be a success.
It all went down at the film’s first industry screening. “It didn’t go well,” the funnyman told me Thursday at the, yes, Beverly Hills premiere of “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F,” the fourth installment of the action comedy franchise. “A lot of times at industry screenings they don’t laugh.
I thought the movie was going to be horrible. I was with [Murphy’s ‘Trading Places’ director] John Landis and he was like, ‘No, it was great.’ I thought they hated it.
Then I went and saw it with a real audience and then I saw the real reaction to it. But the very first time it was scary.” The original movie, released 40 years ago, went onto be a major hit and spawned three follow-ups.
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