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Detective Axel James Foley is a fictional character, portrayed by Eddie Murphy, and is the titular protagonist of the Beverly Hills Cop film series. [1] [2] He is ranked No. 55 on Empire magazine's 2008 [3] and 2020 lists of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters. [4] Sylvester Stallone was originally intended to be cast as Axel Foley. [5]
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F is a 2024 American action comedy film directed by Mark Molloy and written by Will Beall, Tom Gormican, and Kevin Etten from a story by Beall.
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F is coming in 2024, starring Eddie Murphy, Taylour Paige, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kevin Bacon, Judge Reinhold, and Paul Reiser, Axel Foley returns to 90210 for an all-new adventure.
Jul 3, 2024 · Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F: Directed by Mark Molloy. With Eddie Murphy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Taylour Paige, Judge Reinhold. Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills after his daughter's life is threatened for a family reunion that includes old pals John Taggart and Billy Rosewood to uncover a conspiracy.
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- Action, Comedy, Crime
- Mark Molloy
- 2024-07-03
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"You can't go in 'cause you're a cop in this town. You go in there without probable cause, they're gonna call it an illegal search. You know that. Or didn't they teach you that in cop school?"
―Axel Foley
Early life
Axel was born on August 25, 1957 in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Mumford High School and became small-time juvenile hoodlum. After a few years in which he was unemployed, Foley joined the Detroit Police Department in 1983. A talented policeman, Axel is also known to bend the rules, which annoys his boss, Inspector Todd.
Beverly Hills Cop
Sergeant Taggart: "Why didn't you identify yourself as a police officer when you were arrested? " Axel Foley: "'Cause I was mindin' my own business. Hey, where the fuck do you guys get off on arresting somebody for getting thrown out of a window? " ―Taggart interrogating Axel Foley is delighted when he receives a surprise visit from his best friend Mikey Tandino, who lives in California. Unfortunately, Mikey is soon killed when Axel was bumped in the head, by a man named Zack. Foley goes to Beverly Hills, California, to find Mikey's assailant (since Mikey told Foley he had a job at an art gallery in Beverly Hills) where Beverly Hills Police Department Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil assigns Detective Billy Rosewood and Sergeant John Taggart to keep an eye on Foley. Where he made friends with the two detectives. Foley visits his childhood friend Jenny Summers, who works at the art gallery. With Jenny's help, Foley discovers that Zack works for Jenny's boss, Victor Maitland, the man who owns the gallery. Maitland is a drug kingpin who is using the gallery as a front, and Maitland ordered Zack to kill Mikey after Maitland accused Mikey of stealing some of Maitland's bonds. Billy, Taggart, and Foley head to Maitland's mansion to apprehend Maitland. Foley and Bogomil simultaneously shoot and kill Maitland. In the end he also earned Bogomil's trust. Before he was about to head back to Detroit, he offered to have a beer with Taggart and Rosewood, even though they are still on duty. Taggart tells Billy, one beer won't hurt us. Rosewood said okay, and Axel told the guys he knows a great bar to get a beer.
Beverly Hills Cop II
Foley is watching the news on TV when he sees a report that his friend, Beverly Hills Police Department Captain Andrew Bogomil, has been shot by a tall woman. Foley heads out to Beverly Hills to visit Bogomil in the hospital, and this is where Foley is reunited with Bogomil's daughter, Jan Bogomil. Foley is also reunited with his friends Detective Billy Rosewood and Sergeant John Taggart. Rosewood and Taggart decide to let Foley help them find the woman who tried to kill Bogomil, even though abusive police chief Harold Lutz has been deliberately trying to find a reason to fire them. Foley, Rosewood, and Taggart soon discover that the alphabet robberies, a series of robberies that have been going on in the area, are masterminded by weapons kingpin Maxwell Dent, and Dent had sent his fiancé Karla Fry to try to kill Bogomil because Bogomil had been after Dent. With this information, Foley, Rosewood, and Taggart try to find Dent and Karla. They track them down and find out the alphabet crimes is about arms deal. Dent and Karla are about to make an arms deal with Nick Thermopolis in Dent's oil field, framed Charles Cane as the alphabet robber so no one suspect Dent was the mastermind was behind this. Foley, Taggart and Rosewood thwarted their plan, took out both Dent and Karla. Thermopolis and Dent's men are arrested. The Mayor fired Lutz for his abusive attitude and jeopardizing the case and commended Foley, Taggart, Rosewood for their service and puts in a good word with Inspector Todd. The Mayor promoted Bogomil who survived the gunshot wound and he is the new chief of Police. He said goodbye to his friends and headed back home.
•Axel Foley was originally going to be played by Sylvester Stallone or Mickey Rourke. Stallone left the project and used some of his script ideas to make Cobra. Other actors who were considered for the role of Axel Foley were Al Pacino and James Caan. Harrison Ford was offered the role, but turn it down.
•In the Sylvester Stallone script, Axel was renamed Axel Cobrelli, Michael Tandino was his brother and Jenny Summers was his love interest.
•Originally Axel was named Elly Axel and was a cop from Pittsburgh.
•The pistol Eddie Murphy uses in the movie is a Browning P35 (known in the USA as the Browning Hi-Power, manufactured by Fabrique Nationale in Herstal, Belgium) 9mm pistol, the same pistol the SAS (British SpecOps) use.
•The central plot lines in all of the Beverly Hills Cop movies revolve around Axel Foley visiting Beverly Hills in order to investigate a shooting of a person Axel is close to.
•In the first film, Axel drives a dilapidated blue Chevy Nova.
Jul 2, 2024 · In Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, Murphy reprises his role as street-smart cop Axel Foley. Axel is a police lieutenant from Detroit whose investigations into crimes against his loved ones often bring him to Beverly Hills.
May 23, 2024 · Eddie Murphy will be reprising his role as Axel Foley from the original trilogy. Since Beverly Hills Cop , Murphy has starred in numerous films including The Nutty Professor , Dr. Doolittle ...
