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Beverly Hills Cop III (1994) More at IMDbPro »

• Director Trademark: ['John Landis' ] [filmmakers] Appearances by directors Martha Coolidge, Joe Dante, Arthur Hiller, George Lucas, Peter Medak, Barbet Schroeder, George Schaefer and John Singleton and filmmaker Ray Harryhausen.
  
  
• The theme park in the movie is Paramount's Great America in Santa Clara, CA. Paramount is the production company and distributor.
  
  
• The Annihilator 2000 shown off by Serge at the security convention is actually a dressed up 5.56mm Colt M16, with extras.
  
  
• The Alien Attack ride that Janice (Theresa Randle) demonstrates to Axel when he first comes to Wonderworld is actually the Earthquake section of the Studio Tour at Universal Studios in Hollywood. The alien robots are similar to the Cylons from "Battlestar Galactica" (1978).
  
  
• While Harold Faltermeyer did not return to scoring duties on Beverly Hills Cop 3, his song co-producer from the previous franchise entries, Keith Forsey, did produce and co-write a new song. "Keep The Peace", performed by INXS was suppose to be in the vein of previous Faltermeyer/Forsey Beverly Hills Cop techno-pop stadium anthems such as "The Heat Is On" and "Shakedown".
  
  
• 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 $55 million, it was soon in excess of $70 million. Of that budget, $15 million was Eddie Murphy's paycheck.
  
  
• Initially, the plot for this film would've concerned Foley, Rosewood, and Taggartt (John Aston) going to London to rescue Capt. Bogamill (Ronny Cox) who was being held hostage by terrorists during a International Police Convention. However, numerous problems such as scripting issues and the budget, caused pre-production to drag out the point that both John Aston and Ronny Cox had to drop out due to obligations to other pending film projects.
  
  
• When John Aston was unable to reprise his role of Taggartt, his part was re-written as John Flint (Hector Elizondo) and dialog was inserted to explain that Taggartt had retired.
  
  
• Among the rejected ideas for Cop III included a Robert Towne screenplay idea (one in which Axel Foley has to deal with his celebrity cop status) and a scenario teaming 'Eddie Murphy' with Sean Connery as a Scotland Yard detective.
  
  
• Joe Dante, Kevin Hooks and Robert Townsend were all considered to direct.
  
  

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