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[Mr. Roboto]

Play It Again, Eddie Murphy Tuesday September 9 9:49 AM ET Los Angeles (E! Online) - There are two things most people remember about the Beverly Hills Cop movies: Eddie Murphy as Detective Axel Foley and the flick's Grammy-winning theme song. Well, when Beverly Hills Cop IV goes into production, director Brett Ratner promises both will be back. "It's a whole new interpretation," Ratner tells me. Composer-producer Harold Faltermeyer's synth-pop theme will get an update, but not too much. "Why change that song?" Ratner says. He goes so far as to say that one of the "biggest problems" with director Michael Mann's movie adaptation of Miami Vice with Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx in 2006 was the missing iconic theme song. "I said to [Mann], 'Why didn't you have it?' " Ratner says. "He said, 'We're doing something new.' That's like doing Mission Impossible without the theme song." Production on BHC IV will reportedly begin next year with a 2010 release date, or 25 years after the first installment of the franchise. Ratner is also busy putting together a DVD about the music videos he's directed for people like Madonna, Jessica Simpson and Miley Cyrus, to name a few. "They're interviewing all the singers I've worked with," Ratner says. "I'm worried."

[Macker]

I read somewhere that Mickey Rourke was supposed to play Axl Foley but did not accept.

[Mr. Roboto]

ha! That might make it good. In all seriousness, I see no hope for this flick.

[LISA]

right into the pooper

[Timothy]

I read somewhere that Mickey Rourke was supposed to play Axl Foley but did not accept.

Well the first person who was signed to play Foley was Stallone.




P.S. ..... The current script is gawd awful.

[Mr. Roboto]

Stalone?

[Mr. Roboto]

I do know that Eddie turned down the black guy in Ghostbusters part.

[Timothy]

Stalone?

The Tango and Cash guy....

[Macker]

Yeah I heard Stallone was offered that as well. Mickey either turned down or lost the part that Bruce Willis took and invested in Pulp Fiction.