Eddie Murphy remembers quite clearly why, back in 1984 when he was just 23 years old, he didn’t think the first “Beverly Hills Cop” was going to be a success. It all went down at the film’s first industry screening.
“It didn’t go well,” the funnyman told me Thursday at the, yes, Beverly Hills premiere of “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F,” the fourth installment of the action comedy franchise. “A lot of times at industry screenings they don’t laugh. I thought the movie was going to be horrible. I was with [Murphy’s ‘Trading Places’ director] John Landis and he was like, ‘No, it was great.’ I thought they hated it. Then I went and saw it with a real audience and then I saw the real reaction to it. But the very first time it was scary.”
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