Netflix teaming up with Paramount and Eddie Murphy for New Beverly Hills Cop movie
After years of trying to reboot the Beverly Hills Cop franchise with a new movie, it looks like Paramount has finally figured out how to get the Eddie Murphy franchise back off the ground. Netflix, the home of Murphy’s Oscar-worthy comeback Dolemite Is My Name, will continue in its partnership with the beloved actor and produce a fourth installment of Beverly Hills Cop. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer is also returning for the new movie, which will ultimately be released on Netflix.
This is the third deal between Paramount and Netflix after the streamer acquired Cloverfield: God Particle, which it launched with a surprise Super Bowl spot and a release after the 2018 game and acquired offshore rights on the Alex Garland-directed Annihilation with Natalie Portman, 17 days after its U.S. release by Paramount. Netflix made a similar deal with New Line when it took foreign on last year’s Shaft. All of those deals were for finished films; Netflix will work with Murphy and Bruckheimer to get a scripts and director and finance the Beverly Hills Cop reboot and release it on the streaming service.
Murphy told Collider the reboot would be his next project after the Coming to America sequel wrapped:
Yeah, that’s what we’re doing after Coming to America; we’re doing Beverly Hills Cop, and then the plan is to get back on stage and do stand-up. What I’ll be doing mostly is stand up and Beverly Hills Cop.
I keep saying it – these movies and Saturday Night Live I’m looking at as a bookend, and if I decide I just want to stay on the couch forever [then] I ended it on a funny note, and I’ll do stand-up if I’m feeling creative.
I can get up on stage and do my stand-up and if, you know, some incredible filmmaker comes along with some great movie or there’s a great opportunity [I will consider it], but I’m not going to be making [two or three] movies a year like I did back in the early days, because I like to just be home with the kids.
