UPDATED: Eddie Murphy Retiring? Talks Beverly Hills Cop 4. Also: Brett Ratner Talks “Hard Core R”
We all know thatEddie Murphywill end up on screen again—whether as a jivin' animal, an obese person near a pool, in a third sequel to June ‘09’s awful-soundingNowhereLand, or (hail mary)Inglorious Bastards. But the man who made Buckwheat even bunnier just announced toExtra(classy) that he’s throwing in the towel when it comes to feature films…
“I have close to 50 movies and it’s like, why am I in the movies?” he said, adding, “I’ve done that part now. I’ll go back to the stage and do standup.”
All for it. A (hypothetical) HBO-special with a rowdy blessing from Chris Rock is just what the guy needs. But what about Murphy’s plannedBeverly Hills Cop 4withBrett Ratnerand a poor guy dressed up as"PG"who’s contractually obligated to wave and wave…
Murphy, 47, said that while a “Beverly Hills Cop 4” flick was in the works, he didn’t want to do it, because “the movie wasn’t ready to be done.”
But will he still put on his Axel Foley body suit anyhow? Murphy’s tiny alien family comedy,Meet Dave(above), opens and possibly flops on July 11th, and he’s currently filmingA Thousand Wordswith Brian Robbins, who directedMeet DaveandNorbitand, uh,Good BurgerandThe Showconcert film with Biggie Smalls. Yeah, it’s probably hopeless, unless there’s a Rosetta Stone for the F-word. Oh yeah, it’s calledEddie Murphy Raw. Hopeless.
UPLATE UPDATE: Our friends atLatino Reviewspoke with Ratner who put his tan smack down on those MTV-bred rumors thatBHC4would be PG. Evidently this was before Murphy expressed his displeasure with the film’s progress…
Hard core, kids. Hear that?
UPDATE 07/01/08: Murphy seemed far more enthusiastic aboutBeverly Hills Cop 4in a recent chat with, oddly enough,MTV…
He added…
“If I do it, it’s gonna be some shit that’s right!”
So, basically, as Brett Ratner said, “it’s going to be hard core” and stuff. Could this turn out good?
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