Get ready comedy fans, as another 21 Jump Street movie is in the works 12 years after the sequel 22 Jump Street hit screens. However, because so much time has passed, the team has skipped right past 23 and has titled the upcoming film 24 Jump Street.
The news was announced by producer Neal H. Moritz, who shared an image of the script on Instagram, which states under the title "It took so long to make we had to skip one." The image also shows that script was written by Rodney Rothman, Jonah Hill, and Meghan Malloy. The trio also penned 2014 sequel 22 Jump Street, taking over from 21 Jump Street scribe Michael Bacall. Check out the post below.
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As reported by Variety, Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, and Ice Cube are in talks to star in the third installment. In the franchise, Hill and Tatum play police officers Schmidt and Jenko, who go undercover as part of an investigative program led by Ice Cube's strict Captain Dickson. Rothman will direct the film, with 21 and 22 Jump Street producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller also set to return alongside Moritz, Tatum, Hill, Reid Carolin, and Matt Dines.
The first movie follows Schmidt and Jenko as they go undercover at a high school to find out where a new, dangerous drug is coming from. The second follows a similar premise, but this time, the boys are at college. The first movie, directed by Lord and Miller, grossed more than $200 million worldwide, and the sequel raised the bar even further, earning $331 million.
Despite the second movie seemingly sending up the idea of more sequels, as the end credits show snippets of hypothetical following movies, such as 23 Jump Street being set in medical school, no. 24 sending boys on foreign exchange, 25 set at a semester at sea, 26 at art school, and so on. However, the third installment has actually been in development at Sony for quite some time. At one point, there was even a script for 23 Jump Street. Back in 2024, Tatum told Comic Book that 23 Jump Street had "the best script that I’ve ever read for a third movie.”
According to Variety, the third movie was set to crossover with Sony’s Men in Black franchise. However, it looks like that script was scrapped, hence why the franchise is skipping ahead to 24. Who knows, maybe no. 23 actually happened, but we were just hit with a Neuralyzer. Nevertheless, we expect the new movie to touch on what the duo has been getting up to in the 12-plus years they have been off-screen.
24 Jump Street does not yet have a release date. For more, see our list of the best comedy 2010s movies, and keep up with new movies heading your way.
