Why Beverly Hill Cop Was Almost Very Different Shorts

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00:00 The Eddie Murphy-fronted Beverly Hills Cop is an icon of AE Cinema, but if Sylvester

00:05 Stallone had had his way, we would have gotten one hell of a different lemon twist.

00:09 Before Murphy was attached to Beverly Hills Cop, the role of Axel Foley's was basically

00:14 Stallone's.

00:15 However, he wanted to rewrite the script.

00:17 Stallone's draft of the film changed Foley's name to Axel Cabretti, toned down the humour

00:22 massively, ramped up the action and eventually led to him to partner project two weeks prior

00:28 to when filming was set to commence.

00:30 As those familiar with the Cabretti name will have guessed, many of the ideas in Stallone's

00:35 Beverly Hills Cop rewrite went on to feature in Cobra.

00:38 Now, Cobra is a wildly entertaining and somewhat deranged time, a complete vehicle for ego

00:44 that has a bit where Sly eats pizza with some scissors, but it's not what Beverly Hills

00:48 Cop should have been or eventually was.

00:51 And hey, this way we ended up getting two 80s bangers, so banana in the tailpipe avoided

00:56 as far as I'm concerned.