Update: "Beverly Hills Cop" TV Series is Dead, 4th Film is Possible

[JamesG]

Eddie Murphy in Rolling Stone: A "Beverly Hills Cop" TV Show?
Oct 26, 2011
by Kate Stanhope


Eddie Murphy is quashing any hopes of a Beverly Hills Cop IV, but says a TV version of the popular 1980s comedy franchise is in the works.

"What I'm trying to do now is produce a TV show starring Axel Foley's son, and Axel is the chief of police now in Detroit. I'd do the pilot, show up here and there.

None of the movie scripts were right; it was trying to force the premise. If you have to force something, you shouldn't be doing it. It was always a rehash of the old thing. It was always wrong."

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Murphy-B...w-1039050.aspx

[isiahthomas]

Well i was wondering if there was gonna be a part 4 but now after reading what you posted, i guess it won't be happening. A tv show just like the movie should be interesting and i would watch. I wonder who Eddie would choose to play his son.

[catlover79]

Eddie, some things are best kept in the 80s.

[Tweety]

Originally Posted by catlover79

Eddie, some things are best kept in the 80s.

Truer words were never spoken!

The first movie was great. I can still easily watch it today and enjoy it. As it happens, it's been playing quite a bit on a couple of movie channels lately, I still enjoy it as much as when it first came out.

After that, Murphy would have been better off finding something else to do besides BH Cop 2 and BH Cop 3.

With this "franchise", lightning only struck once, never to strike again.

[JamesG]

Beverly Hills Cop Show Officially Dead
7/19/2013
by Lesley Goldberg


Shawn Ryan's Beverly Hills Cop show is officially dead. The showrunner took to his Twitter page Friday to announce that efforts to shop the pilot, which CBS passed on in May, have not been successful.

"Sad to report that efforts to land Beverly Hills Cop pilot at another network have failed. This iteration is dead for now," he wrote. "Good news for fans of franchise is that the pilot tested so well, it has caused Paramount to put another #BHC movie into development."

No other details were available on the potential sequel.





CBS passed on the pilot, which would have followed Foley's son as he made a name for himself with the Beverly Hills Police Department.

It starred Brandon T. Jackson as Axel Foley's (Eddie Murphy) son and Kevin Pollak, David Denman, Christine Lahti, among others.

Sony and Paramount shopped the project to other networks after CBS passed, but no deals ever happened.





CBS' decision is a blow to Paramount's effort to get back into television production. The studio has been out of that business since Paramount was split from CBS in 2005.

Beverly Hills Cop was a logical starting point since it has been a successful movie franchise for Paramount for a decade starting in 1984. Paramount CEO Brad Grey announced in March that Paramount would partner with Sony Pictures Television to produce an existing pilot and potential series.

The same day, Philippe Dauman, CEO of parent company Viacom, noted he would "get back, with very little investment, into the television production business."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...lls-cop-589340

[JamesG]

Paramount, Eddie Murphy Revving on New Installment of Beverly Hills Cop
by MIKE FLEMING JR. AND NELLIE ANDREEVA
Saturday July 27, 2013


Though it recently looked like the Beverly Hills Cop saga would continue on television, Paramount Pictures has begun moving fast on another movie. The studio has enlisted Eddie Murphy to reprise his role as Axel Foley, and they’ve set Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec to write that script.

That duo has done very well at the studio, with recent script credits that include Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles remake.





The series began in 1984, tailor made for Murphy as the tough talking Detroit cop who was an outsider and excoriated by authority, but who was the smartest cop on the block. Martin Brest directed the first one, Tony Scott helmed the second, and the last one was directed by John Landis in 1994, back when Murphy was one of the studio’s biggest stars.

The series grossed near $750 million collectively. Paramount adds that to another retro project that originated in the ’80s, a sequel to 1986′s Top Gun, which has been in limbo since the film’s director, Scott, committed suicide.

Tom Cruise was ready to star at that point.





We hear the newest installment in the film franchise was fueled by the interest sparked by the Beverly Hills Cop pilot this past season. The project, written by Shawn Ryan and executive produced by Murphy and Ryan, ignited a bidding war before landing at CBS last fall where it went to a pilot starring Brandon T. Jackson as Axel’s son.

Murphy reprized his role in a scene-stealing turn that had people talking. It showed that the character and Murphy’s portrayal are still pretty potent. The pilot was produced by Sony Pictures TV, with Paramount, as rights holder, coming on board after the pilot green light for what the company billed as its re-entry into television.

(Paramount is restarting a TV production operation.)



For whatever reason, Paramount-CBS politics or pilot testing depending who you ask, the project shockingly did not go to series. But it drew enough attention to the franchise to spawn a new movie.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/para...rly-hills-cop/

[comedyfreak]

leave well enough alone.