The end credits scene of Phil Lord and Chris Miller's
22 Jump Street proposed a whole slew of outlandish sequels for
Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah Hill). Some of the highlights include 23 Jump Street: Medical School, 26 Jump Street: Arts School, 27 Jump Street: Culinary School, 29 Jump Street: Sunday School, 33 Jump Street: Generations, and
40 Jump Street: The Retirement Home. Of course as you know, reality is stranger than fiction. Which brings to the recent leaked emails that the Wall Street Journal have come across that reveal Sony and Jonah Hill working together on a movie that would be a crossover between the
Jump Street and the
Men In Black franchises.
In an e-mail to Ms. Pascal, Mr. Hill says “jump street merging with mib i think that’s clean and rad and powerful.”
In another e-mail, Hannah Minghella, a president of production for Sony’s Columbia Pictures label, says of the joint sequel, “We don’t have a script yet so we’ll be greenlighting the movie off the concept and the talent involved.”
E-mails indicate it is one of the highest profile projects on the studio’s slate and that executives are eager to move ahead with the film as soon as possible. Sony is hoping to release the movie in 2016 or 2017.
The Wall Street Journal also reports
Phil Lord and
Chris Miller ("The LEGO Movie") will produce the crossover film and might even direct it. Sadly, the emails also indicate that
that the stars of the previous
Men In Black films
, Will Smith and
Tommy Lee Jones, would not star in the crossover film. Though, there is a chance for them to make a cameo.The main focus of story would be to on Jenko and Schmidt interacting in the
MIB universe.
At first I want to mock this idea, but to be quite honest I think it would be fun to see. Could it work? Maybe, maybe not. I'm open to seeing how it turns out.
How about you?
After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.