Eddie Murphy reprises his role as Detective Axel Foley once again for Netflix’s upcoming action comedy, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.
The latest installment of the franchise, which will hit the streaming platform on July 3, will follow her character on a rescue mission to save her daughter (played by Taylour Paige), whose life has been “threatened.”
According to the film’s synopsis, Murphy teams up with a “new partner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and old friends Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton) to turn up the heat and uncover a conspiracy.”
In the film’s official trailer, released Thursday, it begins with Murphy’s character stealing a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter.
“I didn’t realize you couldn’t really fly a helicopter,” said a man sitting next to Murphy, who tells him he “didn’t realize” he couldn’t really fly a helicopter, or he would have. I have a different idea.
His friend yelled at him: ‘I told you it was a bad idea!’
Eddie Murphy reprises his role as Detective Axel Foley once again for Netflix’s upcoming action comedy sequel, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.
The pair’s helicopter proceeds to come under fire and they can be heard screaming before apparently diving towards the ground on a golf course.
Murphy is then handcuffed and about to be put into the back of a police car.
‘This is very embarrassing. “Part of me would rather be locked up than put in this little Fisher-Price looking patrol car,” he jokes to the arresting officer. “You are all the LEGO police.”
After his arrest, he calls his daughter, Jane, from jail, but she ends up hanging up on him.
‘Are you sure you’re paying your bills? “Because this phone doesn’t work,” he tells an officer as he tries to process what’s happening.
Later, he tells a police officer that this is not his “first time in Beverly Hills.”
“Yes, I saw it,” the officer notes as he flips through a file with information about his previous arrests in the city in 1984, 1987 and 1994.
During the preview, Murphy, who returned to Beverly Hills after her daughter was threatened, is told she is “upsetting a lot of people.”
He replies, “That means we’re getting closer.”
Other suspenseful moments in the trailer include flashes of a car chase and multiple gunfights.
The latest installment of the franchise, which will hit the streaming platform on July 3, will follow his character on a rescue mission to save his daughter (played by Taylour Paige), whose life has been ‘threatened’.
In the film’s official trailer, released Thursday, it begins with Murphy’s character stealing a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter.
Last year, Murphy candidly confessed that his age made it difficult for him to film some of the more physically demanding scenes in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.
‘It was difficult. I did Axel Foley when he was 20 years old. “I’m not 20 years old anymore,” he said. People. ‘It was an action movie. So it was difficult. But we got through it.’
The original film was released in 1984, when Murphy was just 23 years old, and follows a rogue cop named Axel.
He secretly sets out on a mission to find out who murdered his childhood friend, even though his boss told him he was not allowed to continue the investigation.
The action comedy was a huge success and marked Murphy’s first solo lead role in a film.
It grossed $234 million at the US box office, making it the highest-grossing film of that year and inspiring two (soon to be three) more films.
He helped transform Eddie, a budding star better known for his comedy sketches on Saturday Night Live than his acting, into a major Hollywood figure.
