Beverly Hills Cop 4: Axel Foley
After Axel Foley are ytou ready for more Billy Ray Valentine?
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A critically-acclaimed 1983 comedy starring
Eddie Murphy gets an encouraging sequel update from co-star Dan Aykroyd. Since surprisingly returning to
SNL for the first time in 35 years in 2019, Murphy has continued a trend of revisiting hit projects from early in his career. 2021 saw the release of
Coming 2 America, the long-delayed sequel to his 1988 hit
Coming to America, and 2024 will see the release of
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley, the third sequel to Murphy’s 1984 blockbuster
Beverly Hills Cop.
As audiences await the return of Axel Foley, news has arrived of another classic Murphy comedy that could soon get a sequel, as
Trading Places star Dan Aykroyd offers an encouraging update on a possible
Trading Places 2. "
Last year, I generated a sequel for Eddie and I that I submitted to Paramount,” Aykroyd revealed (via
Newsweek). He added, “
It's good, man, it's good.”
Directed by then-hot Hollywood auteur John Landis,
Trading Places paired Murphy and Aykroyd in a satirical jab at Reagan-era capitalism, with Murphy as a street-wise hustler and Aykroyd as a smug investor, who swap places as part of a bet by a pair of millionaires (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy).
With billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg dominating the news in 2023, there could be plenty of ripe material available for a revived Murphy-Aykroyd pairing, that again takes satirical aim at the rich. In his remarks to
Newsweek, Aykroyd mentioned wanting to bring back the original film’s writers Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod in some capacity.............
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