Eddie Murphy’s signature character returns to wreck some buffets and piss off some bureaucrats.
It’s been a long road trying to get a Beverly Hills Cop reboot off the ground with plenty of rumors and a failed CBS pilot that was supposed to hand the franchise off to Axel Foley’s son (Brandon T. Jackson), but now we’re finally here and star Eddie Murphy is bringing out friends old and new to help stick the landing in a new film for Netflix.
Coming in Summer 2024, 30 years after the disappointing and bloated Beverly Hills Cop III (which found Axel chasing a case into the bowels of a Disneyland type theme park to uncover a counterfeit operation) and 40 years after the original action comedy classic, Axel F treads familiar territory. Murphy’s smartassed Detroit-bred cop is going back (back) to Cali wreck some buffets and turn a few bureaucrat’s faces red. At first glance, it looks like Kevin Bacon may be playing one such bureaucrat/authority figure while Joseph Gordon Levitt is on-board as a fellow cop and sidekick, flying choppers into traffic and rocking some seriously fab hair.
