They're reviving a canceled undercover police program from the '80s and revamping it for modern times... again! Yes, twelve years after22 Jump Street, undercover cops Schmidt and Jenko are finally coming back (with Captain Dickson, too) for24 Jump Street, which is officially in the works at Sony. And what's more, asVarietyreports, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, and Ice Cube are already in talks to return, withSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse's Rodney Rothman on to direct and Phil Lord and Chris Miller back producing. Check out fellow producer Neal H. Mortiz's tongue-in-cheek Instagram announcement below;
So there you have it, we're skipping23 Jump Streetbecause, and we quote, "it took so long to make we had to skip one." Which, honestly, is fair enough. And, if you want to get down to brass tacks, thentechnicallyyou could argue that22 Jump Street's generously lengthy end-credits sequence(s) — in which Schmidt and Jenko go undercover in medical/culinary/dance schoolandeven go to space — probably has just about enough material to cover a whole23 Jump Street, anyway. Still, the upshot is that amid a recent resurgence in out-and-out big screen blockbuster comedy, fromThe Naked GuntoScary Movie, someone at Sony has had the good sense to bring the $500 million+ grossing, critically and generally beloved crime comedy franchise back at long last for a third outing.
Jonah Hill has written the script for24 Jump Streetalongside Rothman andJump Streetwriting department alum Meghan Malloy, withVarietynoting that currently Channing Tatum only has an offer to return for the comedy threequel. Whether any of what would've once been23 Jump Streetwill make it to our screens remains to be seen (those holding out for thatMen In Blackcrossover may well be holding out for a very, very long time), but given how hard Tatum has been beating the drum for moreJump Streetin recent years, consider us pumped for whatever's in store for Schmidt and Jenko next.
