Even George Lucas Can’t Save Beverly Hills Cop III 30 Years Later By The first two Beverly Hills Cop movies are excellent, even if part two didn’t have that same originality and tightly written script, it was entertaining, but that’s probably where they should have stopped. Ten years after the first movie, Detective Axel Foley is called back on duty after a simple raid he’s in charge of goes wrong, resulting in the death of his commanding officer and sending the Detroit cop back to Beverly Hills, but this time to hunt down criminals in the greatest place on Earth, Wonder World. About Beverly Hills Cop III, , “There’s no reason to do it: I don’t need the money, and it’s not gonna break any new ground.
” But he seemed to predict the future, adding, “The only reason to do a Cop III is to beat the bank, and Paramount ain’t gonna write me no check as big as I want to do something like that. In fact, if I do a Cop III, you can safely say, “Oooh, he must have got a lot of money!” That amount ended up being , and delays would cause the production to exceed its $55 million budget, while director John Landis questioned whether the supposed-to-be easy-cash-in film would even be finished. It was a mess for multiple reasons.
Long before Paramount had to pause production to address budget issues, the film’s plot and script would go through numerous iterations, many of which were also shot down for financial reasons. One of the original ideas saw Foley and friends.
