Why Beverly Hill Cop Was Almost Very Different Shorts

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

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

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

00:14Stallone's.

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

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

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

00:28to when filming was set to commence.

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

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

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

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

00:48Cop should have been or eventually was.

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

00:56as far as I'm concerned.