Editing Coming to America (section)

==Legacy==
===Television pilot===
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A [[television pilot]] of a weekly [[sitcom]] version of the film was produced for [[CBS]], following the film's success, starring [[Tommy Davidson]] as Prince Tariq, and Paul Bates reprising his role as Oha. The pilot went unsold, but was televised on July 4, 1989, as part of the ''[[CBS Summer Playhouse]]'' pilot anthology series.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.deseret.com/1988/12/8/18787084/outtakes-coming-to-america-the-tv-series|title='Outtakes' - 'Coming To America' The TV Series|date=December 8, 1988|work=[[Deseret News]]|access-date=February 22, 2022}}</ref><ref name='splinter_spinoff' /><ref>{{cite news |last=Thompson|first=Bonsu|date=August 20, 2020|title=An Oral History of the 'Coming to America' TV Show You Never Knew About|url=https://level.medium.com/an-oral-history-of-the-coming-to-america-tv-show-you-never-knew-about-3df24504d651|work=Medium}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0911189/reference|title="CBS Summer Playhouse" Coming to America (TV Episode 1989)|date=July 4, 1989|website=IMDb}}</ref>

===Remakes===
A Tamil film, ''[[My Dear Marthandan]]'', was produced based on the plot of ''Coming to America''.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19900831&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |title=My Dear Marthandan |last=Krishnaswamy |first=N. |date=August 31, 1990 |work=[[The Indian Express]] |access-date=June 9, 2020}}</ref> A Hong Kong film, ''[[The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon]]'', also has the same plot.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fareastfilms.com/?review_post_type=the-fun-the-luck-and-the-tycoon|title=The Fun, The Luck And The Tycoon
|access-date=February 22, 2022|work=Far East Films|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231844/http://www.fareastfilms.com/reviewsPage/The-Fun-The-Luck-And-The-Tycoon-657.htm|archive-date=March 3, 2016}}</ref>

===Influences in music===
The melody heard in the bathroom scene, where Prince Akeem is being washed by female servants, was sampled in [[Snoop Dogg]]'s 2006 song "[[That's That]]" featuring [[R. Kelly]]; a remix of the song featuring American rapper [[Nas (rapper)|Nas]] includes a woman's voice saying "the royal penis is clean, Your Highness", a line taken from the same scene. The [[Supergroup (music)|supergroup]] [[The Randy Watson Experience]] is named after the character Randy Watson.

=== Cultural impact ===
The movie has been described as having a "cult following" years after its release, despite negative press, with one of the highest-grossing box office of the year it was released, as well as one of the highest-grossing films featuring a predominantly African-American cast.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Ferguson|first=Amber|title=Before Wakanda, there was Zamunda: Eddie Murphy's 'Coming to America' turns 30|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/29/before-wakanda-there-was-zamunda-eddie-murphys-coming-to-america-turns-30/|access-date=2020-08-03|newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref>