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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.
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