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Line 1: {{use mdy dates|date=September 2024}} {{short description|Fictional character}} {{for-multi|the rapper|Axel Foley (rapper)|the Munster rugby player/coach|Anthony Foley}} Line 6 ⟶ 7: | image = Axel Foley.png | image_size = | caption = [[Eddie Murphy]] as Axel Foley | first = ''[[Beverly Hills Cop]]'' (1984) | last = ''[[Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F]]'' (2024) | creator = {{plainlist| * [[Danilo Bach]] Line 12 ⟶ 15: }} | portrayer = [[Eddie Murphy]] | full_name = Axel James Foley | occupation = [[Detective]] | affiliation = [[Detroit Police Department]] | children = Aaron (son)<br>Jane Saunders (daughter) | origin = [[Detroit, Michigan]], United States | nationality = American }} Detective ''' ==''Beverly Hills Cop''== Line 32 ⟶ 39: Foley is also falling in love with Janice Perkins, who works at the park. When Dave gets shot by Dewald in the chest with his gun, Foley is accused of being the man who shot Dave after rushing him to the hospital. But Dave then tells the entire town it was not Foley who shot him; it was their idol, Dewald. With the - rather reluctant - help of Billy, Foley sets out to prove his innocence and get revenge on Dewald and Sanderson. This results in a chase and shootout with Sanderson and Dewald's security men all across the theme park. Finally, in the park's prehistoric world ride, Foley manages to kill Dewald and avenges Todd but gets shot himself. As he sits down to recover, Agent Steve Fulbright, who had been helping Foley, suddenly shows up after he killed Sanderson. Foley reveals that he has come to suspect that Fulbright is also involved in the counterfeit scheme. His suspicions are true, but as the corrupt agent prepares to shoot him, Foley jumps him, and in the ensuing tussle Fulbright is accidentally killed when his gun is fired. One of the shots, however, over penetrates and nicks Flint, who has just arrived having received a call and discovering Dewald's treachery and that he was indeed the one who shot Dave; both are eventually joined by Rosewood, who has been seriously wounded by the security men. In the end, Flint, Rosewood and Foley are all injured, and Janice invites Foley to an upcoming Tunnel of Love Ride but not before the latest character of the theme park has been introduced — Axel Fox and Dave thanks Foley for bringing Dewald to justice. ==Unaired television pilot== In early 2013, [[CBS]] ordered a pilot with [[Brandon T. Jackson]] starring as Axel Foley's son, Aaron.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/beverly-hills-cop-brandon-t-jackson-eddie-murphy-cbs-383166|title=Brandon T. Jackson to Play Eddie Murphy's Son in CBS' 'Beverly Hills Cop'|last=Goldberg|first=Lesley|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=November 13, 2012|access-date=August 15, 2013}}</ref> The In February 2015, Eddie Murphy stated that his cameo appearance in the pilot ironically doomed the show's chances: "I was gonna be in the pilot, and they thought I should be recurring. I'm not gonna do ''Beverly Hills Cop'' on TV. I remember when they tested it — they had this little knob that you turn if you like it or you don't like it. So when Axel shows up in the pilot, some people turned the knob so much, they broke it. So the network decided 'if he isn't recurring, then this isn't gonna happen'. So it didn't happen."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Repanich |first=Jeremy |url=http://www.playboy.com/articles/the-playboy-conversation-eddie-murphy |title=The Playboy Conversation: Eddie Murphy |magazine=Playboy |date=2015-02-10 |access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216094514/http://www.playboy.com/articles/the-playboy-conversation-eddie-murphy |archive-date=2017-12-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2019, Murphy reiterated this statement: <blockquote>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". I was like, "I ain't popping in shit". "Well, we ain't making this TV show". I was in the pilot, but they wanted me to be there every week. The pilot was really good. It tested where they have these knobs [that you] turn if you like it. And whenever I came on the screen, Axel Foley would come on the screen, they turned it so they literally broke the knobs on the thing. It was like, "Damn, they breaking knobs?"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2019/12/eddie-murphy-interview-dolemite-1202197143/|title=Don't Tell Eddie Murphy 'Dolemite' Is His Comeback: "I'm Out There 24 Hours a Day, Seven Days a Week'|website=[[IndieWire]]|first=Tambay|last=Obenson|date=December 13, 2019|access-date=December 22, 2019}}</ref></blockquote> Line 43 ⟶ 50: ==''Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F''== {{Main|Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F}} Foley has returned to Beverly Hills after his daughter Jane's life is threatened. She and Foley team up with her ex-boyfriend and his old pals, John Taggart and Billy Rosewood, to uncover a conspiracy between the Beverly Hills Police and a drug trafficking.
==Equipment== Foley's signature sidearm is a 9mm [[Browning Hi-Power]] pistol, which he carries in all ==References== {{reflist}} == Further reading ==
*{{Cite news |last=Siegel |first=Alan |date=2024-07-03 |title=The Oral History of ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ and Axel Foley |url=https://www.theringer.com/movies/2024/7/3/24191212/beverly-hills-cop-4-axel-f-netflix-eddie-murphy |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=The Ringer |language=en}} {{Beverly Hills Cop}} {{Eddie Murphy}} {{Detroit Lions}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Foley, Axel}} [[Category:Beverly Hills Cop (franchise)]] [[Category:Black characters in films]] [[Category: [[Category:Comedy film characters]] [[Category:Detroit Lions]] [[Category:Film characters introduced in 1984]] [[Category:Fictional American police detectives]] Line 69 ⟶ 79: [[Category:Fictional American municipal police officers]] [[Category:Male characters in film]] [[Category:Works by Eddie Murphy]] |