Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are again on the beat with 24 Leap Road.
The newest sequel within the comedy movie franchise is within the works at Sony Pictures, with Hill, Tatum and Ice Cube in talks to return, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Rodney Rothman will direct the film from a script he wrote with Hill and Meghan Malloy. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who helmed 2012’s 21 Jump Street and 2014 sequel 22 Jump Street, will return as producers alongside Neal H. Moritz. Additionally producing are Hill and Sturdy Child Productions associate Matt Dines, together with Tatum and Free Affiliation associate Reid Carolin.
No plot particulars have been shared, and it’s unclear why the quantity 23 was omitted for the present movie’s title, though Moritz’s Instagram post of the script’s title web page contains the message, “It took so long to make, we had to skip one.” Rothman, who received an Oscar for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, is credited for engaged on the script for 22 Leap Road, together with Michael Bacall and Oren Uziel.
Lord and Miller, who helmed this 12 months’s Ryan Gosling-led Amazon MGM Studios hit Undertaking Hail Mary, marked their live-action characteristic directorial debuts with 21 Leap Road, which had a script from Hill and Bacall. It centered on cops Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) going undercover as highschool college students in an try and infiltrate a drug ring. Ice Dice performed the gruff Captain Dickson, who oversaw this system.
21 Leap Road surpassed $200 million on the international field workplace. 22 Leap Road, which noticed the pair disguising themselves as school college students, was an excellent larger hit, amassing $331 million worldwide.
The movies are based mostly on the 21 Leap Road collection that premiered on Fox in 1987 and ran for 5 seasons. Johnny Depp, who had a cameo within the first film, starred within the present that counted Patrick Hasburgh and Stephen J. Cannell as co-creators.
Over time, there had been speak of a 3rd 21 Leap Road film, together with the potential of a crossover with the Males in Black franchise, till the undertaking was lastly stated to be lifeless.
Again in 2024, Tatum famous {that a} script for a third movie within the 21 Leap Road collection had been written some time again, with the actor singing its praises. “You know what, I’m going to put some good juju out there, and I’m going to say I would love to see 23 Jump Street,” Tatum stated on the time. “I would love to do it with Jonah, and Jonah I know wants to do it. We would love to just get to go play again.”
Selection was first to report on 24 Leap Road.
June 10, 9 p.m. Up to date with Moritz’s put up.
