The films star Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop who travels to Beverly Hills, California to investigate a crime, even though it is out of his jurisdiction.

[4] Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is introduced as a Detroit cop who, after the murder of his best friend, travels to California to investigate and track down the killer(s), who he believes operates an art dealership as a cover in Beverly Hills.

Axel returns to Beverly Hills, after finding out that Captain Andrew Bogomil (Ronny Cox) was shot.

He once again teams up with Rosewood and Taggart, who, reluctantly and against incompetent and verbally abusive Police Chief Harold Lutz's (Allen Garfield) orders, assist Foley to find the person responsible for Bogomil's shooting.

Axel, Rosewood, and Taggart discover that the alphabet crimes, a series of felonies (robberies and Bogomil's shooting) that have been perpetrated in the area, are masterminded by weapons kingpin Maxwell Dent (Jürgen Prochnow).

During an assignment, his boss, Inspector Todd (Gil Hill) is killed, and certain evidence points towards an amusement park called "Wonder World".

Upon arriving in Beverly Hills, Axel looks up Rosewood, who has attained the title of DDO-JSIOC (Deputy Director of Joint Special Interdepartmental Operational Command).

[5][15][16][17] By October 2011, the fourth film was shelved in favor of a television series centered around Axel's son, Aaron (Brandon T. Jackson).

[18] In December 2013 after filming a pilot episode, and when CBS passed on a series order, Paramount revived Beverly Hills Cop IV.

The film, intended to be shot in and around Detroit and was estimated to provide jobs for 352 workers, was originally scheduled for a March 25, 2016, release,[20] but was later pulled due to script concerns.

[26] By May 2020, after delays in the filmmaking business caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Arbi and Fallah confirmed they were still attached and that a new screenwriter was working on a new script.

[30] In August 2022, Jerry Bruckheimer revealed the fourth installment was set to begin filming late August-early September.

[35][36] In June 2024, Eddie Murphy and Jerry Bruckheimer revealed that a fifth Beverly Hills Cop film was already in development.

In February 2013, Kevin Pollak was cast as Rodney Daloof, an irritating and risk-averse in-house attorney for the Beverly Hills Police Department.

[41] David Denman was cast as Brad, an honest and likable but socially awkward detective, formerly a baseball player and a musician.

[42] Director Barry Sonnenfeld agreed to both direct the Beverly Hills Cop pilot and serve as an executive producer.

"[46] Four years later, in 2019, Murphy reiterates this statement: The reason that didn't get picked up was because [the studio] thought that I was going to be in this show, because [the lead] was my son: "And you're going to pop in every now and then".

"[47]In a January 2016 interview, Ryan blamed personality clashes with the network: "The official answer is they decided they liked other pilots better.

[48] After CBS passed on ordering the pilot episode to series, Paramount moved on to develop a fourth film instead.

[50] 1987: Robert Tine: Beverly Hills Cop II: A Novel, Pocket; Mti edition, ISBN 978-0671645212 In 1990, Tynesoft released a loose adaptation of the first movie in the series.

The game was released for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS.

[73] For WhatCulture, Padraig Cotter said the game was "poorly designed mess, with horrible stealth sections you can fail for no clear reason, appalling AI, a paltry number of levels and fiddly shooting mechanics.