In what seems like a Hollywood fever dream, Channing Tatum is campaigning for a blockbuster franchise crossover that would truly be out of this world.
Following the news in the 2014 Sony email leakTatum confirmed that a crossing of Jump Street 21 and men in blackentitled MIB 23was once in development and is still waiting for the ambitious film to be made.
“There’s a project that was written and it’s still the best script I’ve ever read for a third movie,” he said. ComicBook.com after starring together jonah hill in the 2012 action comedy Jump Street 21 and its sequel Jump Street 22 (2014).
An adaptation of the 1987-1991 Fox series, they played two youthful-looking police officers assigned to go undercover at a high school. original stars Johnny DeppHolly Robinson and Peter DeLuise had cameos in the film, with Richard Grieco and David Nguyen appearing in the sequel.
When Tatum Take me to the moon co-star Scarlett Johansson asked what happened to the sequel to the plan, which was written by Salto Street scribes Phil Lord and Chris Miller and finally abandoned By 2019, he said, it came down to “a lot of bureaucracy, above-the-line stuff.”
Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Dave Franco in Jump Street 21 (2012). (Scott Garfield/Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection)
“It’s really hard to do it and we’ve been trying to do it,” Tatum said, noting that he’s not ready to give up. MIB 23.
“You know what? I’m going to put on some good juju and say I’d love to see Jump Street 23”he added. “I would love to do it with Jonah, and I know Jonah wants to do it. “We would love to be able to play again.”
According Time, the crossover would have seen Tatum and Hill’s characters as the new recruits of the extraterrestrial government agency. In the 2014 Sony leak, Hill said that the script for MIB 23 It was “clean, radical and powerful.” men in black stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones They were not expected to join the crossover in any major capacity.
Screenwriter Sisters Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Loeglin previously wrote a female-led spin-off titled Jump Street: now for your pleasurewho was supposedly seeking to choose Zendaya, awkwafina and Tiffany Haddish.