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.