It certainly wasn't easy to get Murphy back on "Beverly Hills Cop" track. In a new interview with Collider, the star noted that he read a whole bunch of scripts and decided against all of them. However, at the end of the day, all it took was one man to get him back on board. Of course, this wasn't just any person. "Jerry Bruckheimer, the original producer. When he got involved, and he started developing the script, and he knew what Beverly Hills Cop was supposed to be. When he got back involved, that's when it all started to come together," Murphy revealed.
Bruckheimer produced the first two installments in the film series, but wasn't involved in "Beverly Hills Cop 3," where production duties were handled by Mace Neufeld and Robert Rehme. Evidently, Murphy doesn't think of this particular sequel too fondly, seeing as it's a certifiable turkey that stands at a Tomatometer score of just 11 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Knowing this, it's not awfully surprising that the actor recognized Bruckheimer as the missing piece of the puzzle, and made the call to make the movie when he heard of the producer's involvement.
