CBS is producing a pilot called Beverly Hills Cop, based around Axel Foley's son Aaron Foley (played by Brandon T. Jackson), and it looks like the stars of the original movie will be reuniting for the pilot. It was previously announced that Eddie Murphy, who's executive producing the show, will guest star in the pilot (and possibly in future episodes if Beverly Hills Cop gets picked up), but The Wrap reported yesterday that Murphy's BHC co-star Judge Reinhold will also be appearing in the pilot. Reinhold's role will only be a cameo, but he and Murphy will probably appear onscreen together. The Wrap says that his character [...]
The original Beverly Hills Cop movie was one of the most successful movies ever at the time of its release, and it had the potential to give birth to a franchise that was equally as popular and long-lasting. Unfortunately, the second movie didn't fare as well with audiences or critics and the third film, released in 1994, a whopping seven years after the previous installment, was near-disaster. Despite this, the version of Beverly Hills Cop III we got, in which Eddie Murphy's Axel Foley busts up a counterfeit ring at a Southern California theme park, was far superior to a lot of the ideas that were thrown around by [...]
The TV version of Beverly Hills Cop we told you about last week has gotten a pilot production commitment from CBS. Lots of Internet people are talking about Jay Pharoah for the role of Axel Foley's son, which makes sense because usually children on most normal TV shows are just young actors doing very accurate impressions of the actor that plays their father.
In The Finally Screenings, Alden Ford is watching comedy classics that, because he grew up in a cave in Alaska, he’s never seen before. These are his takes on movies everyone else has seen before.
I really prepared myself to hate Beverly Hills Cop.
In my defense, it’s a terrible premise on paper. Cool, black Detroit rookie cop goes vigilante in L.A. and is thwarted by ultra-white, by-the-book Beverly Hills police? That’s a recipe for disaster. Imagine the broad, cliché, racist, fish-out-of-water shitstorm this movie could have been – nay, should have been. Even my friends who have seen it — all of them — were a little [...]
