Eddie Murphy dubbed the original movie the first Black blockbuster, but its significance in the industry is way more complicated—as the new Netflix sequel proves.
hits streaming with, if not outright high anticipation, definitely a modicum of good will. The latest entry in the long dormant franchise sees superstarreturning as slick talking Detroit cop Axel Foley, and it’s understandable that fans would be eager to see Murphy don the old Detroit Lions jacket and get the ol’ Beverly Hills band back together for a victory lap onthe first Black blockbuster.
For all of the success he’d brought to studios and for all his success has done to refashion the image of the Black movie star, Hollywood was still very uncomfortable with what Eddie Murphy dared to be. Even director John Landis, who’d directed Murphy in the belovedwas a very strange experience.; The script wasn’t any good, but I figured, “So what?; I’ll make it funny with Eddie.”; I mean, one of the worst scripts I ever read was Beverly Hills Cop.; It was a piece of shit, that script.
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