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Eddie Murphy gives promising Beverly Hills Cop 4 update

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Photo credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Contributor - Getty Images

From Digital Spy

Eddie Murphy has revived a comedy classic with Coming 2 America, coming to Amazon Prime Video later this week, but what about his other nostalgic favourite?

No, we're not talking about Norbit or even The Haunted Mansion, we're talking about the Beverly Hills Cop series.

Speaking to Digital Spy and other press, the star teased BHC 4 by saying: "Right now, they are writing a script. They are getting a script together.

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Photo credit: Sunset Boulevard / Getty Images

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"We don't have a start date, but we have directors and we have producers – and we have writers working on it. Axel Foley is ready to go. All we need is a script... As soon as the script comes together, I'm doing the movie – but I'm not doing it until the script is right.

"We've been trying to do Beverly Hills Cop 4 for over 10 years and this is the closest we've got to it. It also looks like we've got the original producer who produced the original Beverly Hills Cop – Jerry Bruckheimer – involved again too. I feel like we're on the right track now. We're nearly there."

The movie will be directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, who successfully revived the Bad Boys series with Bad Boys for Life, and impressed Murphy by cutting together footage from the old movies to make it look new.

Photo credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Contributor - Getty Images
Photo credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Contributor - Getty Images

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Furthermore, the star stated that Twins sequel Triplets, with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, is sadly only in "a total embryonic stage" at the moment. Ideas are being worked on, but it's currently "really far away".

Coming 2 America will be released on Prime Video on March 5, while Coming to America is available to watch now on Prime Video.


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