A Coming to America sequel is almost here — and its iconic stars are revealing why it took so long.
While appearing virtually on Extra Monday evening, Coming to America actors Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall spoke candidly about the 1988 hit comedy and why it took more than 30 years for the film to get a follow-up feature.
“We never planned on making a sequel to the movie,” Murphy, 59, explained. “We had done the movie and it was in the past. But the movie stayed around.”
“Of all the movies that I’ve done over the last 40 years, Coming to America is the only one that has a cult following,” Murphy continued. “… And then, maybe around six, five years ago, I got an idea. Then it took four years for it to come together.”
Hall, 65, admitted that he and Murphy felt a lot of pressure from fans to make the film the best it could be. “Fans rolled up on you in the mall or on Twitter … ‘Don’t you f— up our movie! Don’t mess it up!’ You have to go into it with all that in your head,” he said.
The Coming to America sequel — titled Coming 2 America — will see Murphy reprise his role of Prince Akeem, and Hall as his best friend Semmi.
The sequel film finds Akeem traveling back to America to find his long lost son, a Queens native named Lavelle (Jermaine Fowler).
Alongside Murphy and Hall, other famous faces including James Earl Jones, Wesley Snipes, Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan and Teyana Taylor will appear in the upcoming movie.
Credit: people.com
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