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Original “Jump Street” filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller had hoped to direct the crossover movie, but they’re currently busy casting Disney’s young Han Solo movie, so it became necessary for Sony to seek out a new director. Sony has been developing the crossover film at the same time as a female-driven spinoff written by “Broad City” writers Lucia Aniello and Paul Downs.Īlso Read: 'Jump Street' Franchise Expands With Female-Driven Spinoff, 'Men in Black' Crossover Word of the project first leaked as a result of the Sony hack, though TheWrap advanced the story in April 2015, reporting that after sending up reboots and sequels, the “Jump Street” franchise would send-up the current Hollywood trend of Shared Movie Universes by having Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum enter the “Men in Black” universe and investigate aliens. The movie follows every rule in the sequel handbook: The explosions are more ridiculous, the parties are wilder and the laughs are absolutely bigger.James Bobin, the “Flight of the Conchords” alumnus who directed “The Muppets” and “Alice Through the Looking Glass” for Disney, is in early talks to direct the “23 Jump Street”/”Men in Black” crossover movie for Sony Pictures, TheWrap has learned. This time around, perpetually undercover cops Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) find themselves in a new office located across the street from the old headquarters -at 22 Jump Street, get it? - and are given an assignment that requires posing as college students, even though they’re in their mid-30s. But as Travers says, “ 22 Jump Street is almost meta in the way it laughs at the whole idea of sequels, and how we as an audience never tire of seeing the same damn movie over and over and over again.” Sure, the film’s context wreaks of Hollywood’s ridiculous attempts to rake in big bucks: The follow-up to the 2012 big-screen reboot of the Eighties television hit 21 Jump Street, which paired Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill as undercover cops who infiltrate a high school. ’22 Jump Street’ and More Movies You Have to See This Summer

It’s a weekend of sequels on At the Movies, and while Peter Travers highly recommends checking out the spectacular animated How to Train Your Dragon 2, he knows you’re more likely to check out the latest big summer blockbuster comedy: 22 Jump Street.