But according to Shadow and Act’s 2016 article, a proposed TV series from Paramount was set to revolve around Aaron, Axel Foley’s son who serves as a “blue-collar police officer, trying to make a name for himself absent of his father’s prominent influence” through the number of “the criminals among the rich and famous in Beverly Hills he helps eliminate.”

The film idea also had trouble getting off the ground because, as Murphy told Rolling Stone in 2012, “none of the movie scripts were right; it was trying to force the premise.” So if Netflix’s film is getting a greenlight, perhaps that means that this iteration of the film will not be, as Murphy described, “a rehash of the old thing.”

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