Eddie Murphy has been awarded a famous award Lifetime achievement award by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 2022, but it’s clear that the 63-year-old actor—or as he likes to be described, a “super sensitive artist”—still has plenty of milestones ahead of him. want to achieve. In a new interview, the star of the upcoming film Netflix movies Beverly Hills Police: Axel F. says he always wanted to make a very specific “fake documentary,” so much so that he even made a trailer for the film that has yet to be produced.
Revelation comes in one The interview was published on Saturday inside New York Times Magazinea conversation ostensibly in favor of the fourth film release on July 3 in 40 years Beverly Hills Police Franchising. “We are trying to develop something else Beverly Hills Police since ’96,” Eddie Murphy said, after John Landis-Command Beverly Hills Police III failed to meet the star’s expectations. “It doesn’t have the emotional appeal of other movies,” Murphy said. “I don’t think the movie ends well.”
“There were ten different scripts and many different producers,” the fourth time police movie, Murphy said. “We’ve been trying for years and years, and it won’t work until We had Jerry [Bruckheimer] back in, the original producer. Jerry, he knows best because it’s his movie, and everything comes together.”
Murphy has long expressed dissatisfaction with the film industry, speak Vanity Fair in 2020 that he was “so exhausted by the filmmaking process that if I were a kid, I would start crying.”
The problem, he said, was “the process of getting into filmmaking at a level where I’ve been making films since I was very young and doing it constantly. The whole thing of just sitting in a trailer and waiting.”
Not much has changed for the star in the past four years, as he told the interviewer David Marchese, “I never had fun” during the filmmaking process.
“Actually being in a scene, it’s just a small part of the day. I love that — when we’re on set and you feel like everything’s going smoothly. But ‘hurry up and wait’ wait’: It’s the movie industry, and it’s not fun.”
Even though he is the recipient of many awards, Murphy also slammed those ceremonies, telling Marchese, “The most terrifying energy in the world is a room full of famous people going through their whole famous thing: who’s the most famous, who’s cool? great and who isn’t. I hate that feeling.”
Murphy, who says his work in Professor Nutty is one of his best (“I can’t think of anyone else who could do that Attractive professor,” he said), seemed most interested in talking about a movie he hadn’t yet made. “There’s something I’ve been threatening to do for years called Soul, soul, soul,” he said. “It’s like my favorite fake documentary.”
“It is a Zelig like this guy has been part of rock’n’roll, R&B since the ’60s and has worked with everyone; all these great moments and he’s attached to all of this,” Murphy said. He even created a trailer for the movie, even showing it to everyone. writer, actor and musician Donald Glover. “He said, ‘Hey, you have to make this movie. How do we make this movie?'” Murphy said.
Murphy, however, has yet to decide to produce, although “I got to the point where I was going to do it and then said, ‘No, not now.'” Murphy said the problem was that he felt “it was too pretentious and only a handful of people would go see it—but they would laugh out loud.”
And there’s also Murphy’s aforementioned frustration with the filmmaking process. Even for a dream project like Soul, Soul, Soul“There’s a lot of work to be done,” Murphy said. “It’s a preventive measure. But I tell you, one day, I will.”
