Crime never rests, and Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are set to be back on the case. The pair who led 21 Jump Street and its sequel are currently in talks to return for 24 Jump Street, which is in development at Sony Pictures, alongside Ice Cube.
As Variety reports, Rodney Rothman (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) will direct the project and write the script with Hill and Meghan Malloy. Original helmers Phil Lord and Chris Miller are returning as producers, reuniting with Neal H. Moritz, who produced the first two films, and joining Tatum, Hill, and their respective partners, Reid Carolin and Matt Dines. Not much else is known, including plot details, a release date, and the reason for skipping past the number 23.
Highlighting the third point on social media, Moritz shared an Instagram post of the script’s title page that reads, “It took so long to make, we had to skip one.” Indeed, the announcement for 24 Jump Street comes more than a decade after the previous film, with Tatum previously describing the screenplay for the now-scrapped 23 Jump Street as “the best script that I’ve ever read for a third movie.”
21 Jump Street marked the live-action feature directorial debuts of Lord and Miller, the creative minds behind Amazon’s sleeper hit Project Hail Mary. Adapted from the television series of the same name by Stephen J. Cannell and Patrick Hasburgh, it follows Morton Schmidt (Hill) and Greg Jenko (Tatum), who are forced to relive high school when they are assigned to prevent the outbreak of a new synthetic drug and arrest the supplier. Captain Dickson, the gruff police captain overseeing the programme, was played by Ice Cube.
The movie grossed over US$200 million at the global box office and received a follow-up in 2004, in which they go undercover at a college to find the supplier of a new drug. It collected US$331 million worldwide.
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