Eddie Murphy is back in the Beverly Hills Cop business with news that he and Shawn Ryan’s concept television series based on the films of the same name has been granted a pilot order at CBS.
Beverly Hills Cop will center around Aaron, the son of Murphy’s Axel Foley character who, like dad, works as a cop in the Beverly Hills Police Department. Aaron is trying to escape the big shadow of his legendary father whom has risen the ranks and become a police chief back in his hometown of Detroit.
Ryan (The Last Resort) will executive produce alongside Murphy and Marney Hochman, and serve as showrunner on the series if the pilot results in an order. Ryan also is tasked with penning the pilot.
Considering the foul language-laced source material, Beverly Hills Cop will likely push the network censors as far as it can with a mix of crime procedural action and comedy. Axel Foley’s extreme vulgarity will be missed even though Murphy will reprise the now much older character in select episodes starting with the pilot.
Beverly Hills Cop will slide in alongside fellow crime procedurals NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, CSI, CSI: New York and newcomer Elementary on CBS, no stranger to making these types of shows click and sustain.
The big question now surrounding Beverly Hills Cop is who will play lead Aaron Foley. There’s already a swelling Internet outcry for Community’s Donald Glover to take on the role, but right now your guess is as good as ours.
The Beverly Hills Cop pilot from Eddie Murphy and Shawn Ryan is expected to film early next year and the potential series debut to land in fall 2013. It’s the closest thing to a Beverly Hills Cop sequel we’ll ever get.
Source: THR
