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713194, sorry, but Eddie is over...no matter who writes or directs what
Posted by rdhull, Tue Jun-14-16 05:37 PM
His Tower Heist window is closed. Not that TH was all that but it got folks talking and hyped after his dramatic/comedy turn in Dreamgirls.

Sorry, nobody is feeling a Cop 4 either. Are yall? Be honest. You want to go back to Cop?


>Eddie was the best part of the Beverly Hills Cop pilot that
>they did a couple of years ago so this COULD be good. Foley in
>Detroit could be cool. Not sure about TMNT but I know people
>here liked MI: Ghost Protocol which the two writers worked on,
>if they are even still going with that script.
>
>http://variety.com/2016/film/news/beverly-hills-cop-4-directors-eddie-murphy-1201795498/
>
>Paramount has signed Belgian directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall
>Fallah to direct Eddie Murphy’s “Beverly Hills Cop 4”
>— more than two decades after the third film was released.
>
>Jerry Bruckheimer is producing as he did on the first two
>“Beverly Hills Cop” films, which were released in 1984 and
>1987. “Beverly Hills Cop III” was released in 1994. The
>three films grossed a combined $735 million worldwide.
>
>The hiring of El Arbi and Fallah — directors of the
>award-winning drama “Black” — comes more than a year
>after Paramount had pulled the fourth installment of the
>franchise out of its March 25, 2016, release date. At that
>point, Brett Ratner had been attached to direct from a script
>by Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec (“Teenage Mutant Ninja
>Turtles”) with a story centering around Murphy’s Axel
>Foley character returning to his native Detroit.
>
>“Black” won the Discovery Award at the Toronto Film
>Festival last year. It centers on a 15-year-old girl in a gang
>in Brussels who must choose between loyalty and love when she
>falls for a Moroccan boy from a rival gang. Martha Canga
>Antonio and Aboubakr Bensaihi starred.
>
>Variety‘s Peter Debruge called “Black” a
>“powerhouse” and said in his review: “The first of its
>kind in Belgian cinema, this easily exportable,
>minority-driven drama has the potential to launch the careers
>of its young directors and cast, driving its star-crossed
>‘West Side Story’ formula into the 21st century.”
>
>El Arbi and Fallah are both of Moroccan heritage who directed
>the short film “Broeders” and the feature “Image.”
>They are repped by CAA, Management 360 and Belgian agent Ken
>Lambrechts. The news was first reported by Deadline
>Hollywood.