In a recent USA TODAY article, it was revealed that screenwriting team behind 3:10 To Yuma, Wanted and the upcoming The A-Team, scribes Derek Haas and Michael Brandt is going to pen the screenplay for the movie version of ALIEN LEGION, which will be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney. The script is currently in its third rewrite… Read the rest of this entry »
Moviehole recently chatted with writer Derek Haas who’s working with fellow scribe Michael Brandt on the screenplay for BEVERLY HILLS COP 4 which will be directed by Brett Ratner. Previously it was Brandt who spoke and said that they’re using their old draft titled DYING DAY, very dark story that had everybody died in the end, and they basically turned it into BHC 4. Now Haas revealed just a little tiny bit of how the conversion is going to work..
‘’We’re working on the second draft and then we’ll see’’,
“As I’m sure you know, nothing is ever certain in Hollywood.”
‘’Michael and I wrote a spec script called Dying Day, a dark action movie about two FBI field agents in LA who discover their whole office is crooked. Paramount bought it and asked us to convert it into the next Axel Foley movie… which sounded like a cool challenge.. Someone at a different website reviewed our first draft of the [Beverly Hills Cop] script and railed on it for not having any jokes. No shit! Like with the first Beverly Hills Cop, we’re writing a straight up action movie that works as a police thriller, then Eddie Murphy is going to come in later and point out where he thinks he can riff. We haven’t gotten to that point yet.’’
Turning a dark thriller into comedy seems like something that could backfire. Why on earth would we wanna watch BEVERLY HILLS COP 4 if the hero won’t appear until way later on in the film?! Fans who’ve seen the first three movies would hav a certain expectation, they wouldn’t wanna have to wonder what genre they’re watching, like some of those movies out there trying to be comedy while being dramatic and thrilling and dark and sci-fi and scary and sad all at once that they don’t even know their own identities (The Spirit, Push, What Just Happened). I don’t see why Haas and Brandt couldn’t just start from scratch with action/comedy in mind and run with it.
By the way, just to recap, Brett Ratner once said they’re not going to call it BEVERLY HILLS COP 4, the movie will simply be considered the New BEVERLY HILLS COP
