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CBS’ Beverly Hills Cop is now in full production and writer/executive producer Shawn Ryan took to twitter to send the world a photo of Eddie Murphy and Brandon T. Jackson posing on set.
This marks Murphy’s return back to TV since his stretch on Saturday Night Live back in 1980 to 1984. This will be Brandon’s first contract TV role, but has proven his skills in films such as, Tropical Thunder and Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son. | Full Story
In Hollywood, studios often cancels pilots at the last minute, which means show deals aren’t usually solidified until the ink is dry. For the last few months there has been talk in the news about making a Beverly Hills Cop TV pilot. It was never officially though, and up into this point it was nothing but mere rhetoric. Earlier today, CBS formally announced that they had ordered the pilot for the Beverly Hills Cop TV show adaptation which will star Brandon T. | Full Story
CBS’ Beverly Hills Cop reboot is shaping up and the studio has just officially signed on actor-comedian Brandon T. Jackson for the lead.
The pick of Jackson is no surprise. A few weeks ago, Humor Mill reported that the show was going to close the deal with the young actor.
Eddie Murphy and The Shield creator Shawn Ryan will executive produce the Sony TV-produced project. Last year, during an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the funnyman Murphy talked about the idea for the show saying, “what I’m trying to do now is produce a TV show starring Axel Foley’s son, and Axel is the chief of police now in Detroit. | Full Story
Announced at the top of this year, CBS has green lit a television series that continues the action comedy adventures of the Beverly Hills Cop feature film franchise. Humor Mill has reporting that the show may have found its lead in actor Brandon T. Jackson.
Jackson, started his career as a comedian, but is best known for roles in films like Tropic Thunder, Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son,
If cast in Beverly Hills Cop, Jackson would play the son of Eddie Murphy’s Axel Foley. | Full Story
Last year, during an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, funnyman Eddie Murphy said, “what I’m trying to do now is produce a TV show starring Axel Foley’s son, and Axel is the chief of police now in Detroit. I’d do the pilot, show up here and there…”
This exciting news came after the interviewer asked the actor about the idea of making a Beverly Hills Cop 4 movie. He shut the film idea down by saying, “none of the movie scripts were right; it was trying to force the premise. | Full Story
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