Beverly Hills Cop III (1994) to Beverly Hills: Axel F (2024): 30 years

The film, currently a hit for Netflix, reunited Eddie Murphy with the whole gang from the old Beverly Hills cop films, including  Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Paul Reiser, and Bronson Pinchot. It’s a fun, fairly action-packed trip down memory lane, which in this case is Rodeo Drive.

The fourth film in the action-comedy franchise also benefits from fresh blood in the form of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Taylour Paige, and Kevin Bacon. At one point Gordon-Levitt’s character works in a very inside joke about the disappointment of Beverly Hills Cop III in 1994.

Maybe one reason Eddie Murphy knew he could pull off Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F three decades after Beverly Hills Cop III is that he had already made another sequel with an even longer break between films: 33 years passed between Coming to America and Coming 2 America.

We aren’t counting the Coming to America movies as a franchise, yet, but Murphy is reportedly considering a third film.