Forty years after the first Beverly Hills Cop hit theaters and was an enduring pop culture phenomenon, Eddie Murphy returns as Axel Foley in the fourth installment of the franchise, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. His iconic earworm theme has also returned.
“I love this song and it’s been in the lexicon for years and years,” the actor exclaimed, recalling the original song, Axel F, by German musician Harold Faltermeyer, which has become a foreign hit, topping the charts in several countries. countries. ” Beverly Hills’ album Cop won a Grammy for Best Original Score and you hear this song all the time. I like it. “
“I have my little musical themes like James Bond or Indiana Jones. It’s also nostalgic. There are few songs that sound more like the 80s. It’s a song from the 80s. When you listen to it, it transports you to the years 1984. “
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, which streams on Netflix, is the first film in the series since the lackluster pretend Beverly Hills Cops III 20 years ago. This time, with his daughter’s life in danger, Murphy’s Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills. and teams up with old friends Taggart and Rosewood to take down those responsible.
“What would drive him to come back here? He’s destined to retire, so what would drive Axel Foley to bring his old butt to Beverly Hills?” said Murphy with a smile. “She needs to save her daughter because she is in danger. They arrange their appointments and solve this crime. It worked well, this date with her daughter was the glue that allowed everything to come together. “
“Jerry Bruckheimer, who produced the original film, had them insert all those elements. That’s what’s missing. If we now want to do Beverly Hills Cop with Axel Foley, we want to have age-appropriate relationships; he’s been married, he’s separated from his daughter and Jerry had it all subtextualized, and that’s what makes the film work. “
However, Bruckheimer, the manufacturer’s mythical classics like Top Gun, Bad Boys, and Con Air, as well as the first two Beverly Hills Cop films, attributes the magic to anything else.
“His calling is Eddie Murphy. Es as undeniable as that,” he said. “He’s a brilliant actor and comedian, and he can do anything. He’s a wonderful dramatic actor, he can activate his charm at any time, he was given that big smile, that big laugh and you need to be with him. It’s someone you need to spend time with. The fact that we are putting it back on the screen excites us.
The manufacturer knows that expectations are high for the film directed by Mark Molloy, the first to be released in theaters, and hopes that the audience will sing and watch.
“That’s why we’re creating them, to get them excited, and we hope their enthusiasm motivates them to turn on their TVs and enjoy Beverly Hills Cop. We want to see Axel Foley in all his glory return 40 years after the first one. one. He has lost none of his sense of humor or charm.
“Mark made a wonderful movie. He captured all the power of the first two, comedy and drama, and explained what a Beverly Hills cop is. There’s nothing like having a director that the actor likes, and they get along, and they have that improvisation and they laugh with the movies, and they laugh and have a great time with that. “
(From left to right) Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Judge Reinhold, Bronson Pinchot, Eddie Murphy, John Ashton, Array. . [ ] Kevin and Paul Reiser attend the Netflix premiere of “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, California.
In 1984, Beverly Hills Cop grossed $234 million at the domestic box office against a budget of $13 million. It is the highest-grossing film released in the United States in 1984 and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. After many years of making plans and discussing a fourth Beverly Hills Cop movie and a TV show that was never made, Murphy is encouraged by the point of anticipation.
“I’m pleased that other people are excited to see it. I knew there was an audience because the film was playing all the time,” said the actor, who is also a producer on the newest film. “It’s on TV because someone is watching it, and Beverly Hills Cop is on it all the time, so I knew there was an audience to watch it. I’m glad he’s hot and other people need to see him. “
“Beverly Hills Cop is 40 years old. How old were you when you came out?The Pope was forty-five years old when Beverly Hills Cop came out. Even the Pope, when he sees the announcement, will say: ‘Don’t forget the first time it came to light. ‘I wasn’t even in church at the time. He was just one man in the world. ‘”
Murphy is one of many actors returning from past films. Judge Reinhold and John Ashton return as Billy Rosewood and John Taggart, respectively. Elsewhere, Bronson Pinchot reprises his iconic Serge and Paul Reiser returns as Friedman in Jeffrey’s “It’s Not My Office. ” The cast of Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F includes Taylour Paige de Zola as Jane Foley, Axel’s daughter, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Detective Bobby Abbott and Kevin as Captain Grant.
“Kevin has been one of the most powerful players in this industry for years and years. I’m a big fan,” Murphy enthused. I love Kevin, and he’s glorious in this movie. One of the reasons the third Beverly Hills cop was a little comfortable was because we didn’t have a strong villain. The first two had strong villains, and Kevin is very best for that. Joseph is a wonderful actor and he gave it new life. We needed him and Taylor. His quotes in the movie and his performances are precisely what I needed.
Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley in the movie “Beverly Hills Cop”.
Murphy believes the enduring appeal of his iconic Detroit cop persona is largely due to his reliability and fallibility.
“I think Axel Foley is like Rocky and Indiana Jones,” he said. “He is one of those characters who rises to the occasion. Rocky isn’t like Superguy; He’s the guy who gets shot. Indiana Jones runs and all that and they almost killed him. In all the other scenes, he almost died; he’s sweating, and you see how hard it is, Axel is a kid, especially now, for the last ten or fifteen years, where it’s all about superheroes and other people making fun of him. borrow and do all that. Axel Foley is just that guy, he’s a guy, he’s not dressed in a lot of makeup, he’s not okay with his hair and all that. He is a guy dressed in normal clothes who is just looking to do his own thing; work. The public can identify with this type.
As for whether this will be the last time we see Axel Foley in action, Bruckheimer replies that it all depends on whether other people see him enough times and need more.
“It’s up to you,” he admitted. If they need us to do one and show up, we raise our hands. “
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