Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Ice Cube are in talks to return jump street 24a new third installment in the hit R-rated crime comedy franchise.
The highly anticipated film is officially in the works at Sony, which will bring the beloved main cast back into negotiations more than a decade after the last film hit theaters.
Rodney Rothman, known for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Versehas signed on to direct the comedy after co-writing the script with Hill and Meghan Malloy.
The revival marks a big step forward for the hit film franchise, which has been stuck in development for many years.
After the enormous success of 2012 Jump Street 21 and 2014 Jump Street 22Sony spent a lot of time developing a now-scrapped third film called Jump Street 23which was originally planned as a crossover with the men in black franchise.
Tatum previously praised that canceled crossover, describing it as the best script he’d ever read for a third film.
Why isn’t there a ’21 Jump Street’ movie?
While the sequel has been a long time coming, fans might be wondering why the studio is jumping right into jump street 24 instead of doing chapter twenty-three.
The decision to skip a number is actually a continuation of the franchise’s signature gag.
The films have always been a very self-conscious reboot of the original ’80s TV series starring Johnny Depp, and the end credits of the second film poked fun at the idea of endless sequels.
In that finale, Schmidt and Jenko were shown performing undercover in a series of increasingly ridiculous settings, including medical school, culinary school, dance school, and even space, which essentially served as a fictional set. Jump Street 23.
When naming the new project. jump street 24the creative team keeps that provocation alive for the audience.
The original film became a surprise global phenomenon by pairing Hill and Tatum as Schmidt and Jenko, two underperforming cops sent undercover to a local high school to dismantle a dangerous drug ring.
