Beverly Hills Cop 4: Eddie Murphy on the Decision to Return for Sequel

During a press tour for his upcoming Netflix comedy movie You People, Academy Award nominee Eddie Murphy sat down with Collider to talk about comedy, his career, and his future projects. As every Eddie Murphy fan knows, “future projects” equals Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley—which has been in the works for years. During the interview, our own Editor-in-Chief Steve Weintraub asked Murphy what finally gave him the push to say “yes“ to revisiting the franchise after so many years away from it. Of course, it wouldn’t make the least bit of sense to do another installment without Murphy reprising his role as Axel Foley, so the studio, screenwriters, producers, and everyone else had to wait until he was on board. And it turns out he only needed to hear one name: “Jerry Bruckheimer, the original producer. When he got involved, and he started developing the script, and he knew what Beverly Hills Cop was supposed to be. When he got back involved, that's when it all started to come to