New “Beverly Hills Cop” Movie in the Works with Eddie Murphy

Deadline broke news of the new Beverly Hills Cop 4 directors.

The film has been in development hell for years; Eddie Murphy said in January that “I’m not doing a Beverly Hills Cop unless they have a really incredible script”. Today we finally have a new update on Beverly Hills Cop 4, with the studio bringing aboard filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (Black) to direct. Even though this is a major step up from the budget of their last film, this became an opportunity to reframe a venerable franchise with youthful energy. “Maybe this time, it will actually happen, and we will get the Detroit cop back in California once again, solving a crime”. Last year, Eddie Murphy shed some light on why the network decided not to move forward with the series, and it had nothing to do with the quality of the pilot.

Shooting on “Beverly Hills Cop 4” is due to start at the end of this year or at the start of 2017. As far as we know, the Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec script is still intact, though as of January of a year ago, the creative team was still trying to get it right.

“I’ve read a couple things that look like they can make some paper, but I’m not doing a s–y movie just to make some paper”. The film has gone through a series of ups and downs during pre-production, getting pulled from Paramount’s 2016 schedule for issues with the script. “The sh*t got to be right.” . Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) wrote the current draft of the screenplay. Two years later, the second film fared almost as well, earning $300 million at the box office.

Even though the response to the third entry back in 1994 was mostly negative, a fourth Beverley Hills Cop has been in the works since the late 90s yet some two decades on and there’s still no movie to show for their efforts.