Movie Monday Edition #49 (Trivia Answer)

Who turned down Eddie Murphy’s role in Beverly Hills Cop?

I’m with Allie, I just can’t picture anyone but Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley.

Beverly Hills Cop Trivia

• Sylvester Stallone was originally going to play Axel Foley. Stallone left the project and used some of his script ideas to make Cobra (1986).
• Besides Sylvester Stalone, other actors who were considered for the role of Axel Foley were Al Pacino, James Caan and Mickey Rourke.
• Eddie Murphy improvised much of his comic lines, as did John Ashton and Judge Reinhold. Literally hundreds of takes were ruined by cast members or actors or the director himself, who were unable to stop laughing during shooting because of this. During the “super-cops” monologue, Ashton is pinching his face hard and looking down in apparent frustration. If you look closely, you can see that he is actually laughing. Reinhold put his hand in his pocket and pinched his thigh really hard to prevent himself from laughing.
• During his tirade at the Beverly Palms Hotel, Axel pretends to be writing an article called “Michael Jackson: Sitting on Top of the World” for Rolling Stone magazine. In real life, Playboy ran an article called “Eddie Murphy: Sitting on Top of the World.”
• The shooting script was literally pasted together from the half dozen or so scripts written for this project over the years. When they were stuck, Eddie Murphy would improvise dialog or create a scene.

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