Despite the fact he’s now in his 70s, super producer Jerry Bruckheimer is showing little signs of slowing down and settling into retirement, having just signed a new three-year first-look deal with Paramount Pictures. During an interview with Bloomberg, Bruckheimer has offered updates on three projects he has in development – the long-rumoured Top Gun 2 and Beverly Hills Cop 4, as well as Disney’s planned Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales:
On Top Gun 2: “Technology has changed obviously since we made the first one. So I think we’re going to take advantage of what the world is like today, with the drones kinda taking over a lot of our wars today, but is the pilot obsolete? Those jet jockeys, are they gone now? No, I don’t think so, I think they’re going to be around for quite a while. Because you still have to make quick decisions and the pilots who want to make quick decisions, so we’re going to hopefully highlight both worlds.”
On Beverly Hills Cop 4: “We’re in the process of getting the script finished. Paramount is very excited about making it, Eddie Murphy is very excited, Brett Ratner is excited about doing it, so I think we’re moving forward. Hopefully we’ll start end of summer, beginning of fall and get rolling on it. We’re going to take Eddie back to Detroit – he’s going to be in Beverly Hills and we take him to Detroit. So we’re going to have some fun with him, he’s really excited about doing it.”
And finally, on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, which was pushed back from its original 2015 release, with a new date yet to be finalised: “We’re working on it, it’s hopefully moving forward. Johnny Depp is excited about it, obviously Disney is, we’re excited about it. So hopefully we’ll get that going this fall or end of the year if everything lines up properly.”
Originally published April 17, 2014. Updated April 12, 2018.
