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Initially, the plot for this film would've concerned Foley, Rosewood, and Taggart (John Ashton) going to London to rescue Captain Bogomil (Ronny Cox), who was being held hostage by terrorists during a International Police Convention. Sean Connery and John Cleese were considered to co-star. However, numerous problems, such as scripting issues and the budget, caused pre-production to drag out to the point that John Ashton and Ronny Cox had to drop out, due to obligations to other pending film projects.
There was briefly an idea to do a crossover film with Crocodile Dundee, but Eddie Murphy rejected it.
Production was temporarily shut down to allow the Paramount top brass the chance to get to grips with the film's spiraling budget. Originally estimated at fifty-five million dollars, it was soon in excess of seventy million dollars. Of that budget, Murphy was paid fifteen million dollars.
John Landis claimed that Eddie Murphy worked against the comedy of the film by deliberately not being funny. Landis knew the script wasn't very good, but he figured that Murphy could save it with his comedic routine. However, Murphy felt that his Axel Foley character was an adult now, and played him much more seriously, deliberately side-stepping around the comedy. Landis said that the film "was a very strange experience", and "an odd movie".
The scene where Serge speaks to Axel was filmed without Eddie Murphy being there for the most part. Bronson Pinchot revealed, in an interview years later, that Murphy was severely depressed about his faltering career at the time and suffering from such low energy levels that director John Landis dismissed him and stood in himself for Murphy, off-screen, so as to give Pinchot a stand-in to look at and speak to.
The theme park in the movie is Paramount's Great America in Santa Clara, the Alien Attack ride is actually the Earthquake section of the Studio Tour at Universal Studios in Hollywood, and The Land of the Dinosaurs ride is the Kingdom of the Dinosaurs from Knotts Berry Farm in Buena Park. The location of Wonder World, according to Rosewood's map, is in Encino.
While Harold Faltermeyer did not return to score this film, his song co-producer from the previous films, Keith Forsey, did produce and co-write a new song. "Keep The Peace", performed by INXS and in the vein of previous Faltermeyer and Forsey "Beverly Hills Cop" songs, such as "The Heat Is On" and "Shakedown".
Disney Composers Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman both filmed cameos. Robert was among the old men discussing the shooting at the bar, but Richard's cameo as the Grand Marshal of the Wonder World parade was cut out. The brothers composed “It’s a Small World” and were brought in by John Landis to compose the Wonder World theme song.
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