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Murphy, who is joined by fellow original cast members Judge
Reinhold and John Ashton, premiered the film on Thursday,
fittingly across the road from the real Beverly Hills Police
Department, where much of the action is set.
However, this red carpet - where Murphy was joined by actor
Martin Lawrence, musician Lil Nas X and others - was a far cry
from the first screening of the original 1984 film.
"The first premiere was... an industry screening I went to and
it didn't go well with the audience... Then I went to see it
with a real audience and then I saw the real reaction to it,"
Murphy said.
"Beverly Hills Cop" went on to gross over $300 million worldwide
and became an iconic '80s movie. Two other films followed in
1987 and 1994.
"This is a big part of people's lives... it was a hit and
everybody loved it but it was more than that. They kind of
warmed to it," said actor Paul Reiser, who reprises his role as
Jeffrey Friedman.
"It's like comfort food. It's like we love that movie, we grew
up on that movie."
The new movie also refers to the 1980s, director Mark Molloy
said.
"I looked at those first two films and I was like, I want to
make a film like that," he said. "I wanted to ground it and make
it humble and also I wanted to shoot everything in camera, make
some mistakes. Those films are imperfect... and I wanted to
embrace that and create a film that felt very nostalgic but was
in the contemporary world."
The film, which begins streaming on July 3, also stars Kevin
Bacon as a sinister senior cop and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as
Foley's new sidekick.
"I'm happy the movie worked out right and that it's
super-audience friendly," Murphy said.
"It's always great when you do a good movie."
(Reporting by Rollo Ross; editing by Miral Fahmy)
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