BAD BOYS Producer Jerry Bruckheimer Says BAD BOYS FOR LIFE is Not Dead Yet

At one point there was no doubt that the Bad Boys franchise was about to increase one more movie, but then writer-director Joe Carnahan (The Grey) left the director’s chair on the third installment which was going to be called Bad Boys For Life. The movie was then postponed to January 2018, and then rescheduled for November of 2018 just before its release date was completely scrapped altogether. In fact, now it's looking more like Bad Boys 3 won't happen at all, especially when franchise star Martin Lawrence said recently, “I don’t think it’s going to happen.”

But there is still a glimmer of hope, and it comes from the producer of the series, Jerry Bruckheimer. During an interview with Yahoo! Movies, Bruckheimer said a few scheduling conflicts are nothing new for the project, and he really thinks it’ll bounce back as it always has:

"Well, we’ve been developing it for I don’t know how many years now and we had a period of time where it got pretty close and then it drifted away a little bit and hopefully it will drift back again. We have a new writer on it who’s working on it right now, so that gives me encouragement."

Bruckheimer and Sony have not found a replacement for Carnahan, but they now have an unknown screenwriter working on the script.