“24 Jump Street” is in the works, and stars Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Ice Cube are in talks to return for the third installment in the R-rated crime comedy franchise.
Rodney Rothman will direct the film and wrote the script with Hill and Meghan Malloy. Also returning are producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller — who helmed the first two films, 2012’s “21 Jump Street,” their live-action directorial debut, and 2014’s “22 Jump Street” — and Neal H. Moritz.
“21 Jump Street,” starring Hill and Tatum as Schmidt and Jenko, a couple of underachieving cops who go undercover at a local high school to take down a drug ring, grossed more than $200 million worldwide. Ice Cube plays their superior, Captain Dickson. The sequel, which saw the duo repeat their undercover schtick in college, topped that total with a $331 million box office haul.
A third installment of the successful “Jump Street” film franchise has been in development at Sony for more than a decade. Tatum once described the script for the since-scrapped “23 Jump Street” as “the best script that I’ve ever read for a third movie.” (That film was designed as a crossover with Sony’s blockbuster “Men in Black” franchise.)
At present, Tatum only has an offer to return for “24 Jump Street”; negotiations are expected.
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