Phil Lord and Chris Miller's 21 JUMP STREET Sequel Coming 2014
21 Jump Street directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are coming back to helm the sequel to the action comedy. Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, and Ice Cube will be back to reprise their roles.
In a recent interview with Collider the producer, Neal Moritz, said that the sequel would take the young looking undercover officers to college. He didn't reveal which college they would be attending, but he teased it by saying...
It leads off where we ended the last film and our guys are going to college. Now, I can’t tell you more than that because there’s some fun to be had in what college they’re going to and what’s going to happen. It really just starts there.
As for where the story of the film is heading he reveals that the two main characters are now "married"...
The relationship developed quite a bit in the first movie and now we’re kind of in the marriage phase between the two guys. Now they’re actual partners, so they’re married – what happens once marriage starts? In certain ways, it’s kind of like the Seven Year Itch of police buddy comedies. What worked so well about the first one was – it was funny, yes, there was good action, yes – but really what worked more than anything was that there was great heart. That’s the thing we’ve been working really hard on, just try and make sure that the heart of the first one is there for the second one.
It sounds like an interesting concept that has a lot of comedic potential. Hill is currently working on a second draft of the script with Michael Bacall. I thought the first film was great, and I imagine the sequel will end up being just as funny. Moritz goes on to talk about the cast saying,
I think there’s going to be a lot of people back from the previous film but we’re going to add quite a few people. It’s been nice, people like the movie so much that there’s been a number of people who have come forward and said, ‘I’d like to be in that movie’ or ‘I’d like to do a cameo in that movie’ or something like that.
The movie will start shooting late September, early October, and they'll release it in theaters in the summer of 2014.
Are you looking forward to seeing this sequel?