Channing Tatum is set to proceed his trilogy streak.
After wrapping up “Magic Mike” with the third movie in 2023, Tatum confirmed that the long-awaited follow-up to 2014 sequel “22 Leap Avenue” continues to be in growth.
Tatum instructed ComicBook that he and co-star Jonah Hill have “been making an attempt” to get the third “21 Leap Avenue” characteristic greenlit for years. Tatum and Hill co-starred as former teen nemeses turned police academy buddies who go undercover as excessive schoolers to thwart a rising drug gang. The duo reprised their respective roles for the 2014 movie that noticed their characters go to school.
Throughout the notorious Sony leaked emails hack, it was revealed {that a} third “Leap Avenue” installment was deliberate to be a crossover with the “Males in Black” franchise. The characteristic, tentatively titled “MIB 23,” was by no means made.
“There’s a mission that was written and it’s nonetheless the very best script that I’ve ever learn for a 3rd film,” Tatum stated. “It’s simply quite a lot of paperwork, type of above the road stuff. It’s actually arduous to get it made and we’ve been making an attempt to get it carried out.”
Tatum continued, “ what, I’m going to place some good juju on the market and I’m going to say I’d like to see ‘23 Leap Avenue.’ I’d like to do it with Jonah, and Jonah I do know needs to do it. We’d love to only get to go play once more.”
Director Chris Miller instructed Slashfilm in 2015 that he and companion Phil Lord wouldn’t be returning to direct “23 Leap Avenue” on the time, regardless of being a part of its growth.
“We’re arduous at work on ’23 Leap Avenue,’ which I feel we’ll in all probability simply produce from a time standpoint. However we’ve been working actually arduous,” Miller stated. “We’ve acquired a very good first draft of a script in and we’re actually enthusiastic about it.”
In the meantime, Tatum is about to star in fiancée Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut “Blink Twice.” Initially titled “Pussy Island,” the movie is billed as a horror-drama that facilities on Tatum’s tech billionaire Slater King and his eerie non-public island. Kravitz co-wrote the script with E.T. Feigenbaum (“Excessive Constancy”).
Naomi Ackie, Christian Slater, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Kyle MacLachlan, Haley Joel Osment, Geena Davis, and Alia Shawkat co-star.