Jenko and Schmidt are back on the beat! Phil Lord and Chris Miller showed the full potential of a TV-to-Film adaptation with 21 Jump Street and its sequel, 22 Jump Street. They took the memorable (for good and bad reasons) cop drama from the ’80s and turned it into two hilarious police comedies, led by Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill. It’s been more than a decade, but now Variety reports that a third movie, titled 24 Jump Street, is in the works with Tatum, Hill, and Ice Cube in talks to return as their perpetually pissed-off captain, Dickson. The news was confirmed on social media by producer Neal H. Moritz.
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While Lord and Miller are only aboard as producers, the film will have Rodney Rothma, a co-writer on 22 Jump Street, in the director seat. Rothman was a co-director and co-writer on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which Lord and Miller spearheaded for Sony.
Plot details are under wraps. Rothman will co-write the script with Hill and Meghan Malloy. The title 24 Jump Street does make one wonder where 23 Jump Street is, though.
You may recall that Sony was considering a crossover between ‘Jump Street’ and the Men in Black movies. It was an odd meshing of its two biggest franchises, but it was just too crazy to get off the ground. Well, that and the MIB flicks kinda died under their own steam, or lack thereof.
22 Jump Street concluded with a dizzying sizzle reel of fake sequels and spinoffs, that had fans speculating on the future for years. While they were clearly just making fun of Hollywood’s need to extend franchises to ridiculous levels, could we maybe see one of those spoof sequels become a reality?
