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Line 41: 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> ==''Beverly Hills Cop: Axel {{Main|Beverly Hills Cop: Axel On June 14, 2016, it was announced that Axel Foley would return in the upcoming fourth installment of the franchise, with Eddie Murphy reprising his role.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=McNary|first=Dave|title=Eddie Murphy's 'Beverly Hills Cop 4' Finds Directors|date=June 14, 2016|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|url=https://variety.com/2016/film/news/beverly-hills-cop-4-directors-eddie-murphy-1201795498/|access-date=June 16, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Fleming |first=Mike Jr. |title='Beverly Hills Cop' Lands Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah To Direct Eddie Murphy|date=June 14, 2016 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|url=https://deadline.com/2016/06/beverly-hills-cop-sequel-adil-el-arbi-bilall-fallah-directing-eddie-murphy-jerry-bruckheimer-paramount-1201772591/ |access-date=June 16, 2016}}</ref> | |||