It's 40 minutes until Mark Molloy's first feature film lands on Netflix, and he's sitting at home in Los Angeles and watching the clock. If this were a movie scene, the minute hand would be in extreme close-up, and the sound of its ticking over would be deafening.There's a lot riding on Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F — the first entry in the franchise for 30 years, and the beginning of a movie career that Molloy has been trying to get going for almost as long.
The film cemented Murphy's superstardom the year after his stand-up special Delirious and the hit comedy Trading Places, and kicked off a remarkable run of hits at the American box office. The story sends Axel Foley back to Beverly Hills to protect his estranged daughter Jane , a lawyer defending an accused cop killer who resents her father for being mostly absent. Molloy loved the dynamic and how vulnerable it made his hero.
Jane Saunders is Axel's estranged daughter — so estranged she doesn't go by his name anymore. Eddie Murphy's actual daughter, Bria Murphy, plays the cop who arrests him in this film.His told the star he wanted to make an 80s-style action comedy worthy of those first two Beverly Hills Cop films, which were funny but still had suspense and real emotion; they had stakes."I think it's a very hard balance to strike," he says.
Their double act recalls buddy-cop classics like Lethal Weapon, and the new film is very much a love letter to the films that Molloy grew up watching in the 1980s, right down to the visual approach (they even made a
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