Schmidt and Jenko are back on the beat. A new report has confirmed that a long-awaited third installment in the 21 Jump Street franchise is officially happening, with both Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum in talks to reprise their leading roles, alongside Ice Cube, who’s also discussing a return as Captain Dickson. Even better, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the duo who helmed the first two installments in the cult classic action crime comedy franchise and are coming off the smash hit Project Hail Mary, are back to serve as producers. The title, fittingly, will be 24 Jump Street, and yes, you read that right.
In place of the Lord Miller team-up, the threequel will be helmed by one of their frequent collaborators, Rodney Rothman, who has experience in the franchise, co-writing the screenplay for 22 Jump Street. It’s a bit of a full circle moment for him, as he was previously attached to the women-led Jump Street spin-off. He most recently joined forces with Lord to pen the script for the beloved Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and was also credited as a co-director on Miles Morales’ first web-slinging adventure. Not only will he be shooting the latest antics of the two bumbling undercover cop besties, but he also co-wrote the screenplay with Hill and Meghan Malloy. A lot of the original Jump Street DNA is being carried over to 24, and that also includes producer Neal H. Moritz.
Sony has been trying for years to find a way to return to Jump Street. The first film, a self-aware R-rated riot loosely based on the original police procedural series of the same name, was a smash hit, making over $200 million worldwide in Lord and Miller’s live-action directorial debut. 22 Jump Street reached even greater heights by raking in over $331 million as the underachievers traded their undercover gig in high school for college. That made a 23 Jump Street seem inevitable, but despite the stars remaining hopeful, there’s been no sighting of Schmidt and Jenko since. Wildly enough, the closest we came to a new Jump Street was likely the bonkers rumored Men in Black crossover, which was revealed in the 2014 Sony Pictures hack and that Tatum called “the best script that I’ve ever read for a third movie.” Now, assuming negotiations go as expected, that dream, minus the Men in Black part, will finally become a reality.
Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner? Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt
Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.
Rambo
James Bond
Indiana Jones
John McClane
Ethan Hunt
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You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner? The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.
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You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel? How you get there is half the mission.
03
You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do? This is when you find out what someone is really made of.
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The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest? Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.
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How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission? Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.
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Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them? The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.
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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do? Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.
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What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace? A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.
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Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with? No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.
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It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now? The last question is the most honest one.
Your Partner Has Been Assigned Your Perfect Partner Is…
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Rambo
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
James Bond
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Indiana Jones
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
John McClane
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Ethan Hunt
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
What Was ’21 Jump Street’ About?
There are no plot details for 24 Jump Street yet, but the second film gave a lot of ideas at its end, from a med school setting to other classes, outer space, and more. The beloved comedy franchise began by following Schmidt and Jenko, former high school classmates who reunite and become friends as adults while working as police officers. After bungling a case by failing to read the suspect his Miranda rights, they’re reassigned to the newly revived titular undercover 21 Jump Street program, using their youthful appearances to infiltrate a high school and bust a drug ring. However, the buddy cop duo quickly finds that things have changed a lot in the few years since they walked the halls as actual students, forcing them to adapt and finally confront the teenage anxieties that never truly left them.
24 Jump Street is now officially in the works. Stay tuned here at Collider for further updates as the cast fills out and work gets underway on making the third installment a reality at last.
