why no cox or ashton - Beverly Hills Cop III (1994) Discussion

[–] jeffrey-e-moller 17 years ago

Ashton had scheduling conflicts. As for Cox, I am uncertain. In the special features they talk about why Taggard could not return.

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[–] TMC-4 (19417) 9 months ago

John Ashton himself, explains it here:
https://youtu.be/Gt6xEHyR0iQ?t=1077

Now, in the original draft that Steven E. DeSuza wrote, the Taggert character is present. Taggert would've been the head of security at the Wonder World amusement park, and he would've been oblivious to the conspiracy that was going on behind his back.

When John Ashton first received the script while in Hawaii, he called John Landis, the director, and told him straight up that the script was terrible. Ashton didn't like how Taggert was split up from Axel Foley and Rosewood, Judge Reinhold's character when in the second BHC movie, Axel said that him, Taggert and Rosewood were like the Three Musketeers. Landis tried to reassure Ashton that the script would soon change. But every rewrite that Ashton got, his character as still split up from Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold's characters.

Another problem is that the shooting schedule kept being pushed back. Finally, Landis told Ashton that he didn't know when they were going to start shooting. So Landis told Ashton that if another gig comes up in the meantime to go ahead and take it. And that gig turned out to be the film Little Big League.

While Ashton was shooting Little Big League, he still being called about appearing in BHCIII and asked when his stop date for Little Big League was going to be. To make a long story short, it just never worked out. With that being said, Ashton confesses that he's actually glad that he didn't do BHCIII.

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[–] GCunningham80 16 years ago

In the DVD's special features of "Beverly Hills Cop II" there are several interviews of cast and crew members. In one of the excerpts, John Ashston says that he has heard the rumors about "Beverly Hills Cop IV", and that he would like to appear in that movie, which strenghthens the hypothesis that he was offered the chance to reprise his character in "Cop III" but couldn't merely due to scheduling conflicts.

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[–] PeterBlues (790) 2 years ago

the lack of previous casts just adds to why i like this the least, a lot of negative posts on this board, the second movie was darker than the first, but that seem light compared to this, all comedy is gone, taggart is really missing, it's explained he's retired, but i read he was in his thirties or something in the first movie from 1984, and the amusement park becomes tiresome and a weird place to shoot a violent movie, i felt like fast forwarding, it can get suspenseful though, i won't reveal anything, but you can tell right away a certain person will turn out to be a bad guy. the name of the plant rosewood has in his office sounds funny, i've never heard of that before, rosewood doesn't have as big part here as the previous movies neither, besides him a few others from previous movies return, like serge, his voice sounded a bit different here though and the scene felt overlong and pointless. strange i never saw who shot john saxon.

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