Eddie Murphy Confirms He’s Making ‘Beverly Hills Cop 4’ After ‘Coming 2 America’
Eddie Murphy is on the roll with these sequels. The actor/comedian has confirmed he is planning to make Beverly Hills Cop 4 once work on Coming To America 2 is complete.
In an interview with Collider, the actor said Beverly Hills Cop 4 would happen. “Yeah, that’s what we’re doing after Coming To America 2,” he said. “We’re doing Beverly Hills Cop and then the plan is to get back on stage and do stand-up.
“That’s what I’ll be doing mostly is stand-up. These movies and Saturday Night Live [Murphy will guest host in December], it’s kind of like… I’m looking at it as a bookend. If I decided I wanted to stay on the couch forever, I ended it on a funny note.”
For those who don’t know, Beverly Hills Cop was a film franchise about Detroit Cop Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) who travelled to California to hunt down his friend’s murderer.
In January 2015, rebooting the film. “I’m not doing a Beverly Hills Cop [film] unless they have a really incredible script,” he said at the time. “I’ve read a couple things that look like they can make some paper. But I’m not doing a sh*tty movie just to make some paper. The sh*t got to be right.”
The script must be on point. Meanwhile, Coming To America sequel is set for release on December 18, 2020.
