According to Eddie Murphy, Axel Foley needed to grow up for a fourth Beverly Hills Cop movie.
The first two Beverly Hills Cops movies are beloved by fans of the franchise.
The third movie, 1994’s Beverly Hills Cop 3, has a different reputation among viewers.
“But the character wasn’t evolving, and it was just Axel doing stuff.”
That’s something Tom Cruise managed to figure out before releasing Top Gun: Maverick in 2022.
The new Beverly Hills Cop does the same for Axel Foley.
For instance, Axel has an adult daughter he’s estranged from.
Where does she work?
Beverly Hills, of course.
But, of course, it’s also a different world–in front of and behind the camera.
The previous three Beverly Hills Cop movies were all theatrical releases by Paramount Pictures.
Naturally, many assumed that is where a fourth movie would land.
Instead, Axel F is a Netflix exclusive.
The reasoning behind that, per franchise producer Jerry Bruckheimer, is simple.
“They wanted to do it.
We couldn’t get Paramount to do it,” he explained.
“But [Netflix] wanted to do it; previous [Paramount] management sold it to Netflix.
And we thank them for that.”
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F is streaming on Netflix now.
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