Beverly Hills Cop 4 story details
A while back, news came down that Brett Ratner would be moving forward with CONAN before going any further with BEVERLY HILLS COP 4. Shortly after that, Rattner told everyone that the news was wrong and that BHC4 would definitely be up first. Now we know more about BHC, and I’m wondering if maybe he should’ve just stuck with CONAN. All we currently know comes from the good folks at Latino Review, who got their hands on an early draft of the script, and here’s a little of the information they shared:
“It’s been 15 years since Axel Foley was last in Beverly Hills, and screenwriters Michael Brandt and Derek Haas needed a good reason to bring him back. That reason comes just a couple of pages into the latest script for Beverly Hills Cop IV (which calls itself Beverly Hills Cop 2009) – Judge Reinhold’s Billy Rosewood takes a leap out the 20th story of the Los Angeles Police HQ. When Axel hears that his former partner and best buddy became sidewalk salad he knows it wasn’t a suicide and he flies to Beverly Hills to get all the facts for himself.
It turns out that Billy was learning about a group of corrupt LAPD officers who were involved with gun running with a Beverly Hills rich kid who has ties to the military. The mystery isn’t that big a deal, and Axel mostly gets from place to place by half-assedly conning people. He makes up a fake story about who he is and then doesn’t follow through on it. It’s like Brandt and Haas saw the first BHC and just didn’t have the energy to write anything that matched up to it.
The really weird thing is that Axel Foley just isn’t a character in this movie. In the opening he’s followed a suspect into Canada and is illegally extraditing him, and from there he never takes a breather to be anything but a supercop. It’s almost like the writers took an Arnold Schwarzenneger script they had lying around and changed the details to make it a Beverly Hills Cop movie. There’s no fun in it.”
There’s plenty more to be read in their review, but long story short, no Judge Reinhold, no bananas in tailpipes, and oh yeah…Brett Ratner. The main thing to keep in mind is that this is still just an early draft of the script, and that Eddie Murphy will most likely be rewriting a lot of his lines, but until we hear more, I’ll remain a bit skeptical.
Source: Latino Review
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