‘Velocity’ Was Pitched as a ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ Sequel

The “Beverly Hills Cop” franchise virtually steered “Speed” away from audiences.

The Eddie Murphy comedy-action car was as soon as briefly on the point of taking up the “Velocity” script earlier than Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock have been connected to star, based on former Paramount vice chairman of manufacturing Don Granger.

Throughout Kris Tapley’s latest episode of the “50 MPH” podcast, which presents a complete oral historical past of “Velocity,” Granger revealed that stalled negotiations for “Velocity” led him to pitch the screenplay as a “Beverly Hills Cop III” script.

“I actually needed to attempt to mount the film, and my last-ditch effort was … I pitched it at our chairman’s lunch as a attainable script for ‘Beverly Hills Cop III,’” Granger mentioned. “I obtained about quarter-hour of traction earlier than it was dismissed, as a result of that was again when the mandate was to discover a ‘Beverly Hill Cop III.’ So I used to be like, ‘Let’s put Axel Foley on the bus.’ It was a Hail Mary, man.”

Granger continued, “I’d preserve it was a greater film, it would have been a better movie than ultimately what we got for ‘Beverly Hills Cop III,’ however that was my remaining Hail Mary.”

“Velocity,” after all, turned a twentieth Century Fox 1994 blockbuster directed by Jan de Bont. The film spurred 1997 sequel “Velocity 2: Cruise Management,” which Bullock admitted final 12 months that she is “still embarrassed” about. “I’ve been very vocal about it. Is senseless. Sluggish boat. Slowly going in direction of an island,” Bullock mentioned. “That’s one I wanted I hadn’t carried out and no followers got here round, that I do know of.”

“Velocity” star Reeves famously turned down the sequel, regardless of the unique movie’s field workplace success and Oscar wins for Finest Sound Modifying and Finest Sound Mixing. Reeves later revealed he was put in “film jail” by twentieth Century Fox for exiting the movie. Jason Patric as an alternative starred reverse Bullock as her new love curiosity.

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