’24 Jump Street’ in the Works With Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum

“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.

More to come…