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The movie was written for Sylvester Stallone, with the character of Michael Tandino as his brother, and Jenny Summers as his love interest. He backed out of the project well into pre-production. He said he left because he didn't think audiences would accept him as a fish-out-of-water cop who was new to the lifestyle of Beverly Hills. He also didn't like the inclusion of comedy because he didn't feel he was suited for it.
Eddie Murphy backed out of doing Ghostbusters to come on board, and the script was often cut together from previous versions to make it work. If there wasn’t enough dialogue, Eddie often improvised his lines to build a narrative.
The Beverly Hills police did not provide access to their headquarters, so Martin Brest and staff built a set that would look like the exact opposite of the Detroit police department, "like private security for all rich people." The set was influenced by Brest's original conceptual designs for the NORAD scenes in WarGames (1983).
The city hall building in the film is the real-life Beverly Hills City Hall. At the time the exterior was very run-down and plants were dying. The film crew cleaned it up and put in new plants so it would look better on film.
To cast the roles of Rosewood and Taggart, the director paired up various finalists and asked them to do some improvisation to get a feel for their chemistry. He paired up Judge Reinhold and John Ashton and gave them the following direction: "You are a middle-aged couple, married for years. You are having a conversation on an average evening." Reinhold immediately picked up a nearby magazine and the two improvised the "five pounds of red meat in his bowels" bit almost exactly as it eventually appeared in the movie.
Originally two men were supposed to be working in the art gallery scenes. When the director heard Bronson Pinchot's Serge impersonation, he thought it was so hysterical that he scaled back the other part to give Pinchot more screen time. The second actor shows up briefly, with his shirt collar open too wide, and Serge comments on it.
Gilbert R. Hill, a real-life Detroit Police Department Homicide Detective, played Inspector Todd. Hill later served as President of the Detroit City Council.
Harold Faltermeyer, who composed the score for Beverly Hills Cop and the theme song called "Axel F" (which became a worldwide hit), referred to this song as the "Banana in the Exhaust Theme" because it was originally composed exclusively for the scene where Axel pulls the banana prank. However, the theme was so loved for fitting perfectly with the context of the scene that it ended up becoming the main theme of the film.
The first R-rated film in history to gross over $200 million domestically.
Director Martin Brest plays the clerk who checks Axel out of the hotel at the end of the movie.
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Axel gets an action upgrade in Beverly Hills Cop II
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