Eddie Murphy isn’t dead, but latest hoax continues unabated thanks to social media morons with no life
If Eddie Murphy were dead – according to those seemingly never-ending online hoaxes, Murphy has died (again) in a snowboarding accident in Switzerland – he would not be planning to turn his “classic” (between quotes) 1984 comedy Beverly Hills Cop into a television show.
Vulture reports that Murphy, The Shield creator Shawn Ryan, and Sony Pictures Television will be joining forces to bring the fish-out-of-water cop Axel Foley – and/or his son and/or a cop buddy – to the small screen. Murphy would be (one of?) the show’s executive producer(s), and, if reports are accurate, be featured in the pilot episode and make special appearances on the show.
We’ll soon find out if Murphy will be luckier on the small screen than he has been on the big one (A Thousand Words, Tower Heist). Another Eddie Murphy venture that didn’t pan out was his Academy Awards hosting gig, following the departure of Oscarcast co-producer Brett Ratner.
Summing it up: Eddie Murphy ain’t dead. A planned Beverly Hills Cop 4, however, is.
Directed by Tony Scott, Beverly Hills Cop was one of the biggest blockbusters of the 1980s. The two sequels weren’t as popular as the original, and received mostly negative reviews.
Eddie Murphy Beverly Hills Cop image: Paramount Pictures.
Michael Douglas reportedly to play former U.S. President Ronald Reagan in political drama Reykjavik
Michael Douglas, Best Actor Academy Award winner for Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, will play Ronald Reagan (playing the role of U.S. president) in the independently made Reykjavik. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’s Mike Newell is currently “in talks” to direct Reykjavik, at one point a possible Ridley Scott property. Scott will now co-produce the film from a screenplay by Kevin Hood (the TV movie Man and Boy, Becoming Jane).
As per the Reporter, “Reykjavik takes place over a few days in 1986, when Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met for talks in the Icelandic capital to iron out peace against the backdrop of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.”
The producers haven’t found their Gorbachev yet. But perhaps Clint Eastwood is available? It should be interesting to watch a Liberal playing a right-winger and a right-winger playing a Communist leader. Now, seriously, how about Guy Marchand?
Participant Media movies
A $10 million production by way of Participant Media (formerly known as Participant Productions), Reykjavik is scheduled to start shooting in March in Germany. Previous Participant collaborations include George Clooney’s Oscar-nominated Good Night, and Good Luck., Davis Guggenheim’s Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Richard Linklater’s Fast Food Nation, and Mike Nichols’ box office disappointment Charlie Wilson’s War, starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Michael Douglas’ other upcoming movie
Michael Douglas will soon be seen opposite Matt Damon in Behind the Candelabra. In the television movie, Douglas plays Liberace; Damon is his lover, Scott Thorson. Also in the cast: Rob Lowe, Dan Aykroyd, Debbie Reynolds, Cheyenne Jackson, Scott Bakula, Boyd Holbrook, and Nicky Katt.