Producers cut ‘Beverly Hills Cop 2′ & ‘3′ from upcoming sequel
Producer on ‘Beverly Hills Cop 4′ talks story
Beverly Hills Cop 4 will be a sequel to the original 1984 Martin Brest film and will toss aside Beverly Hills Cop 2 and 3.
Directed by Brett Ratner and written by Derek Haas and Michael Brandt, Beverly Hills Cop 4 will bring back detectives Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton). Reinhold is reportedly on board for the project while Ashton is in final negotiations.
Haas and Brandt, who collaborated on 3:10 to Yuma and Wanted (both were adaptations from previous source material), will adapt their script for Dying Day, a film centered on a two FBI agents who discover that the entire office is on the take. The story will lean towards a dark comedy but provide ample opportunities for Eddie Murphy to provide some laughter.
The news is reminiscent of Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns which nixed the Superman III and Superman IV from super-history in order to bring the hero back to his roots and erase unpopular shenanigans.
Source: Moviehole
