Eddie Murphy Returns As Axel Foley For ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Alex Foley’ Slated For 2024 On Netflix

Eddie Murphy reprises his role in the famed film franchise, this time for Netflix

Axel Foley is back!

The fourth installment of the Eddie Murphy-led Beverly Hills Cop franchise will debut in 2024, according to a post on X. The sequel is the latest film that comes nearly 30 years after the third installment hit theaters in 1994.

He’s back. Axel Foley returns in 2024! pic.twitter.com/IQkJBvq2QF

— Netflix (@netflix) November 21, 2023

The title of this film is Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley. In this movie, the Detroit police officer returns to Beverly Hills again.

Murphy has been busy since his last appearance as Foley. Four years ago, Murphy starred in the Dolemite biopic Dolemite Is My Name, which aired on Netflix. After a successful run, the streaming giant picked up the rights to make the next sequel to Beverly Hills Cop, with Eddie Murphy taking the lead role once again and Jerry Bruckheimer set to produce. Netflix secured an exclusive one-time licensing agreement with Paramount, the original producer and distributor of the trilogy. This agreement included an option for a sequel, granting the streaming platform the authority to create the fourth installment in the film series.

Paramount retains the rights to the underlying intellectual property and the original three movies.

John Taggart (played by John Ashton) and Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold), the two Los Angeles police detectives who appeared alongside Foley, will be by his side again in this latest adventure. Paul Reiser is also returning to reprise his role of Jeffrey Friedman. Even Serge (Bronson Pinchot) makes an appearance in the film.

Empire reports that the plot involves Taylour Paige playing Foley’s daughter as a criminal defense attorney. She pulls him into a case she is working on in California. Kevin Bacon is a special-unit police officer who works the case with Murphy, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a character.

Mark Molloy directed the sequel, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley.

The first Beverly Hills Cop was released in 1984, followed by two sequels in 1987 and 1994, and has grossed $735.5 million worldwide.