Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill and Ice Cube are in talks to come back for 23 Jump Street, a new sequel now in development at Sony Pictures. Rodney Rothman is directing from a script he wrote with Hill and Meghan Malloy, while Phil Lord and Chris Miller are returning to produce after steering the first two films.
The project would bring back the core trio that turned 21 Jump Street into a surprise hit and kept the formula alive in 22 Jump Street. Tatum and Hill are also producing with their partners Reid Carolin and Matt Dines, and Neal H. Moritz is back as well, giving the film the same creative frame that carried the franchise before. For viewers wondering why the title is drawing attention now, the answer is simple: the sequel is back on the table more than a decade after the last one.
That matters because the first two films were not small wins. 21 Jump Street arrived in 2012, 22 Jump Street followed in 2014, and together they passed $500 million worldwide. The movies, built on the 1987-91 Fox series, paired Tatum’s Jenko with Hill’s Schmidt and turned the old TV property into one of Hollywood’s more durable comedy revivals.
The new talks also reopen an old contradiction. In 2014, Tatum said a third installment would feel like a cop-out, and he said college was the obvious next step while he could not see what came after that. He even said the joke of making each sequel bigger might not work a third time. Yet he is now in discussions to return, which is the clearest sign the franchise is being treated less as a dead end and more as a property Sony still thinks can move.
What remains unresolved is the part that matters most to audiences and to Sony: whether the deals get signed and when cameras would actually start rolling. For now, 23 Jump Street exists as a live project with the right names attached in principle. If those talks harden into contracts, the franchise would be back with the same cast that made it work in the first place.
