Axel Foley is back in Netflix’s new Beverly Hills Cop movie, and so is Harold Faltermeyer’s iconic theme of the same name. “It’s like having your own James Bond theme,” says Eddie Murphy, who played Axel in the original ‘80s films and is filling the character’s baseball jacket once again.“They’ll play that at my funeral one day.”
It was always inevitable that Axel F (the song) would be part of Netflix’s reboot. As Murphy implies, it goes hand in hand with the franchise. But, rather than simply using the original, the producers decided to put a fresh spin on the track.
