Channing Tatum reveals ‘23 Jump Street’ is ‘best script’ he’s ever read — is it greenlit?

Channing Tatum nevertheless wishes to make “23 Soar Street” alongside Jonah Hill.

“I would really like to see 23,” Tatum, 44, shared with ComicBook in the course of his marketing of the film “Fly Me To The Moon.

“I would appreciate to do it with Jonah [Hill], and Jonah I know wishes to do it,” he continued. “We would enjoy to just get to go engage in yet again.”

Inspite of their eagerness, the “Magic Mike” star acknowledged worries in shifting forward.

“There is a job that was composed and it is even now the ideal script that I’ve ever examine for a third motion picture,” Tatum explained to ComicBook.

He extra: “It’s just a lot of paperwork, sort of higher than-the-line things. It is truly challenging to get it created, and we’ve been trying to get it done.”

Chris Miller, 1 of the filmmakers who co-directed and co-wrote the first two motion pictures, informed Cinema Mix that he and imaginative companion Phil Lord crafted a first draft of “23 Jump Street” in 2015.

First designs swiftly faced problems, however, when email messages leaked from Sony and unveiled a crossover with “Men in Black.”

The potential collaboration would require Hill and Tatum’s characters from “21 Bounce Street” interacting with the universe of the sci-fi comedy franchise. 

For every hacked e-mails from Sony’s motion photo chief Amy Pascal, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones would not be integrated in the movie crossover in any outstanding roles, if at all, in accordance to the Wall Road Journal in 2014.

Smith, 55, and Jones, 77, played Agent J and Agent K, respectively, in “Men in Black” (1997), “Men in Black II” (2002) and “Men in Black 3” (2012).

“Jump street merging with mib i believe that is cleanse and rad and impressive,” Hill, 40, wrote to Pascal in the memo at the time.

Sony went on to confirm “Men in Black 3” at CinemaCon in 2016, but Hill expressed doubt that the movie would be manufactured afterwards that yr. 

“They’re trying to make all the offers, but it is kind of impossible with all the ‘Men in Black’ stuff,” the “Superbad” star told the Toronto Sunshine at the time. “The ‘Jump Street’ movies ended up so fun to make, and the whole joke of them was they have been generating pleasurable of remakes and sequels and reboots, and then now it’s become a large sequel, reboot. It’s nearly develop into what we were being creating enjoyable of, and it’s tricky to retain that joke when it is so substantial-stakes.”

Tatum spelled out that the crossover’s logistical troubles came from the two franchise’s executive producers getting as well highly-priced. 

“There’s [Steven] Spielberg, Neil Moritz and Walter Parkes,” Tatum stated in a 2022 interview with Collider. “They’re big producers, and at the time everybody’s type of not prepared to occur off their cost, you end up possessing a producer cost that is fundamentally maybe far more than the real spending plan of the movie.”

In spite of setbacks, Tatum remains hopeful that the third “21 Leap Street” will inevitably materialize. The two previous movies ended up box business office hits and solidified the actor as a comedic primary guy. 

Both equally “21 Leap Street” and “Men in Black” have explored other franchise extensions due to the fact the crossover was set on hold. 

Sony tried a female-centered spinoff of “Jump Street” in 2015, but the challenge stalled. The 2019 sequel “Men in Black: International” with Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson, in the meantime, marked the series’ first installment without having Smith or Jones. It was the least expensive grossing of the 4 franchise films.