How Old Is Eddie Murphy and Where Is He Now?
The actor’s career has recently got an update everyone has been waiting for for years.
Eddie Murphy has been out of the public eye without any big movie premieres in recent years, but the past few months just hit the actor’s fans differently.
Years after joining them in the very beginning, Murphy is now back to two of his most notable and high-grossing franchises to-date — Beverly Hills Cop and, what’s even more important for many of the actor’s followers, Shrek.
The former started with its first movie of the same name back in 1984 when Murphy was only 23 years old, while the latter completely blew everyone away in 2001 when the actor joined the cast as the voice of Shrek’s charming friend Donkey.
Considering that there are more plans for both franchises’ future, Eddie Murphy can now surely forget about retirement plans if he ever had any.
Murphy turned 63 back in April, yet it’s still quite a young age for many filmmakers in the modern industry, and the actor keeps proving so.
Ahead of the digital release of his brand new movie Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, the fourth installment in the Beverly Hills Cop film series, Murphy revealed that the franchise wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon and a fifth film had been greenlit for release sometime in the future.
Additionally, Shrek fans weren’t just left behind with no updates either. Murphy himself was a news deliverer dropping a bombshell about Shrek 5 and a spinoff about his character Donkey already being in the works with potential release dates in 2026.
Given that the actor now has a bunch of new projects to work on, let alone his upcoming heist movie The Pickup, which doesn’t have a release date either, there’s a little chance to see Murphy officially leaving the industry at least during some more years to come.
Since both Shrek 5 and Donkey’s spinoff won’t arrive until 2026 and the new Beverly Hills Cop movie will surely take a couple of years for its development too, Murphy is very likely to celebrate his 65th birthday while remaining Hollywood’s current big figure and may even go further should more promising flicks come around later.