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Franchise star Channing Tatum once said the script for 23 Jump Street was “the best script that I’ve ever read for a third movie.” And while 23 Jump Street may not be happening 24 Jump Street is officially in the works, with Tatum in talks to return alongside co-stars Jonah Hill and Ice Cube.
The Jump Street franchise has been dormant for over a decade, with 22 Jump Street hitting theaters in 2014. Back in 2023, Channing Tatum said the script for 23 Jump Street was “the best script that I’ve ever read for a third movie.” That movie, however, was planned as a crossover with the Men in Black franchise and his since been scrapped.
Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill and Ice Cube set to return for new Jump Street movie that’s cleverly titled 24 Jump Street
A new project though, 24 Jump Street, was written by Rodney Rothman, Meghan Malloy, and Hill, and is now officially in the works with Rothman (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) set to direct.
Given that 23 Jump Street doesn’t exist, the decision to title the film 24 Jump Street could mean a handful of things.
One potential direction is that it’s a meta reference to how long it’s taken to get a third film in the franchise off the ground. Another angle could be that Tatum and Hill’s characters — Schmidt and Jenko, a pair of underachieving cops who go undercover to take down drug rings — reference events of a hypothetical 23 Jump Street as if it happened to them without the audience.
There’s also the potential that the franchise has already shown its hand on what 24 Jump Street could be about, as the credits for 22 Jump Street famously featured mock title cards for hypothetical future entries in the franchise, with 24 being subtitled “Foreign Exchange Students” and being set in Russia.
21 Jump Street, released in 2012, was directed by Project Hail Mary filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller — who will return as producers on 24 Jump Street — and grossed more than $200 million worldwide. The sequel, released two years later, made $331 million at the global box office.