About making the film to People magazine, Eddie Murphy said, "It was a hard one. I did Axel Foley when I was in my 20s. I am not in my 20s anymore. It was an action movie. So it was a rough one. But we got through it."
Before this film was green lit, there was a TV pilot for Beverly Hills Cop where Eddie Murphy was the police commissioner and his son was a detective.
Reunites many actors from previous installments: Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold, who appeared in every movie; John Ashton and Paul Reiser, who appeared in the first two movies; and Bronson Pinchot, who appeared in the first and third movie.
Will be released 30 years after Beverly Hills Cop III (1994) and 40 years after the first Beverly Hills Cop (1984).
The film's subtitle, "Axel F", is based on the 1984 song of the same name by Harold Faltermeyer, which had been used as the theme song for the Beverly Hills Cop films.