Eddie Murphy To Retire From Movies?
June 30, 2008
Eddie Murphy has hinted the much-anticipated Beverly Hills Cop 4 film will be his last, because he wants to get back to stage work.
Before he became a movie star he was an acclaimed stand-up comedian and now he’s keen to return to comedy clubs and theatres. He says:
”Thirty years and I have close to 50 movies and it is like, `Why am I in the movies? I’ve done that part now.’
“I’ll go back to the stage and do stand-up.”
But he’s still all about getting a fourth Beverly Hills Cop film made, after years of looking at bad scripts for the project, and he insists he isn’t making the new film in the franchise for the money:
“The third one was horrible, so I didn’t want to do another one.”
“It wasn’t ready to be done and they (producers) wrote some shit down on paper and I said, `Is this your phone number?’ and they said, `This is how much we’re going to pay you.’
“I said, `Let’s go shoot it! I don’t care if the script ain’t right.’”
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July 1st, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Lets hope that the recently poor movies hasn’t tainted his ability to make a good movie.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:43 am
Bye Eddie. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:13 am
Well, he was an amazing comedian, but a shitty moviestar, here’s hoping all this time in the movies hasn’t totally killed his sense of humor.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:43 pm
[…] Just as soon as he finishes Beverly Hills Cop 4: Electric Boogaloo: “The third one was horrible, so I didn’t want to do another one.” […]
July 24th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
He was funny a very long time ago on SNL and his first couple of movies. Since then it’s all been downhill.