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Sony Pictures is officially processing 24 Jump Street, reviving 1 of the studio’s astir palmy drama franchises with Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, and Ice Cube successful talks to return.
The task volition beryllium directed by Rodney Rothman, who is besides co-writing the screenplay alongside Hill and Meghan Malloy. Rothman antecedently worked connected 22 Jump Street and won an Academy Award for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
While communicative details stay nether wraps, the sequel marks the archetypal large question connected the franchise since 22 Jump Street released successful 2014. The caller rubric has already sparked curiosity among fans, fixed that the bid appears to person skipped straight past 23 Jump Street. Producer Neal H. Moritz joked astir the numbering connected societal media, suggesting the lengthy improvement process whitethorn person been liable for the missing instalment.
Original filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who directed some 21 Jump Street and 22 Jump Street, volition instrumentality arsenic producers alongside Moritz. Hill and Tatum are besides producing done their respective companies.
The franchise began with 21 Jump Street successful 2012, adapting the 1980s tv bid into a self-aware action-comedy. Hill’s Schmidt and Tatum’s Jenko were introduced arsenic mismatched constabulary officers assigned to spell undercover astatine a precocious schoolhouse to analyse a cause operation. Ice Cube played the short-tempered Captain Dickson, who oversaw the programme.
The archetypal movie earned much than $200 cardinal worldwide and became an unexpected captious and commercialized success. Its sequel, which relocated the undercover duo to a assemblage campus, performed adjacent amended astatine the planetary container bureau and cemented the franchise arsenic 1 of Hollywood’s standout drama properties of the 2010s.
Over the years, aggregate sequel ideas surfaced, including a projected crossover with Men successful Black, though nary yet moved forward.
