Production is moving along on Beverly Hills Cop 4 with the latest update on the project revealing that cameras will start rolling in the very near future. Per ComicBook.com, Jerry Bruckheimer spoke about the current status of the long-gestating sequel, and he divulged the most promising update yet on its progress. According to Bruckheimer, the sequel will start filming in about a week or so, meaning that Axel Foley should be back on the scene by the end of August.

"Well, we're making another Beverly Hills cop. We start that in like a week or 10 days and that's gonna be for Netflix."

Of course, the plan is for Eddie Murphy to return as Axel, presumably heading back to Beverly Hills for another action-packed investigation. Back in April, it was reported that the feature would be directed by Mark Molloy using a screenplay by Will Beall. Previously, Bad Bads for Life helmers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah were attached to co-direct the movie, though they left the project to focus on Batgirl. As has since been widely reported, Batgirl was controversially shelved by Warner Bros. Discovery after completing production.

Beverly Hills Cop 4 has been in gestation for many years. At one point, it was in early development at Paramount before it was picked up by Netflix in 2019. In 2021, Murphy said that the sequel was still getting fleshed out as he didn't want to start production until the screenplay was just right. It would seem that the script has since been worked out to Murphy's satisfaction.

"They've been trying to make another Beverly Hills Cop for 15 years now," Murphy said, via Desus & Mero. "Right now, Netflix has it, and they're trying to develop a script. That's what we're supposed to be doing next. But, I'm not doing nothing until the script is right."

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Beverly Hills Cop 4 Will Bring Back Eddie Murphy

Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold in Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
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Eddie Murphy starred in the original Beverly Hills Cop as Axel Foley, first debuting in the role back in 1984. He'd go on to reprise the role in two sequels released in 1987 and 1994. Plans for a fourth movie date as far back as the mid 1990s soon after the release of Beverly Hills Cop III, but the project wound up sputtering out in development hell.

Subsequently, there were plans for Beverly Hills Cop to be revived as a television series. The TV adaptation was ordered to pilot at CBS in 2012 with the idea of following a new actor as Axel Foley's son, though Eddie Murphy appeared in a cameo for the pilot. CBS ultimately passed on that series, and Murphy would later say that this was because he wouldn't have personally been in every episode.

Speaking with IndieWire, Murphy explained, "The reason that didn't get picked up was because [the studio] thought that I was going to be in this show, because [the lead] was my son: 'And you're going to pop in every now and then.' I was like, 'I ain't popping in sh*t.' 'Well, we ain't making this TV show.' I was in the pilot, but they wanted me to be there every week. The pilot was really good. It tested where they have these knobs [that you] turn if you like it. And whenever I came on the screen, Axel Foley would come on the screen, they turned it so they literally broke the knobs on the thing. It was like, 'Damn, they breaking knobs?'"

Fortunately for the fans, Murphy will be in the central role as Axel Foley for Beverly Hills Cop 4. The sequel doesn't yet have an official release date.