21 Jump Street 3 Just Got a Very Surprising Update After 14 Years

14 years after the iconic 1980s television series got a feature film reboot, 21 Jump Street is getting third installment. According to Variety, 24 Jump Street is officially in the works with stars Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, and Ice Cube all in talks to return. The crime comedy threequel will be directed by Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’s Rodney Rothman. Rothman also penned the script along with Hill and Meghan Malloy. Phil Lord and Chris Miller are also set to return as producers.

24 Jump Street will be the third movie in the Jump Street series, following 2012’s 21 Jump Street and 2014’s 22 Jump Street. Interestingly, a third film originally planned as ’23 Jump Street’ was canceled. This scrapped version was intended to combine the Jump Street universe with the world of Men in Black.

Will 21 Jump Street’s Stars Actually Return for the Threequel?

There’s talk that Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, and Ice Cube might be back for another 21 Jump Street movie, but it’s not certain. Tatum has previously been hesitant about a third film, even suggesting in 2014 to USA Today that it would feel like a forced continuation, since the second movie built naturally on the original’s humor.

He explained that a running gag in the second movie was simply making everything larger than life compared to the original. However, he questioned whether repeating that joke in a third installment would still be funny, adding, ‘We’ll see.’

However, with so much time having passed since 22 Jump Street, there could be a lot of opportunity for a solid and hilarious continuation of the story. Nostalgia in general has been big for Hollywood in recent years, and there is also something about older characters getting into unexpected situations that has its entertainment charm. And while we don’t yet have any details about what is planned for 24 Jump Street, that particular brand of charm would be very fitting for the franchise. 21 Jump Street followed Morton Schmidt (Hill) and Greg Jenko (Tatum), two police officers who have to relive the high school experience after getting the assignment to stop the proliferation of a new synthetic drug and arrest its supplier.  The sequel saw the duo take their undercover work (and antics) to college to go after a drug supplier there, too.

While the characters wouldn’t necessarily be able to do their usual undercover at a school routine, there could be plenty of other opportunities for them to have to hilariously pretend to be something and someone they’re not, especially if the film leaned into the two characters having aged. That in particular is an angle that would preserve some of the humor of the first films but also give the movie something new and interesting—and might just be enough to bring the original cast back.

Read More

2026-06-11 02:20