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

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Channing Tatum still wants to make “23 Jump Street” alongside Jonah Hill.“I would love to see 23,” Tatum, 44, shared with ComicBook during his promotion of the film “Fly Me To The Moon.“I would love to do it with Jonah [Hill], and Jonah I know wants to do it,” he continued. “We would love to just get to go play again.”Despite their eagerness, the “Magic Mike” star acknowledged challenges in moving forward.“There is a project that was written and it’s still the best script that I’ve ever read for a third movie,” Tatum told ComicBook.He added: “It’s just a lot of bureaucracy, kind of above-the-line stuff.

It’s really hard to get it made, and we’ve been trying to get it done.”Chris Miller, one of the filmmakers who co-directed and co-wrote the first two movies, told Cinema Blend that he and creative partner Phil Lord crafted a first draft of “23 Jump Street” in 2015.Initial plans quickly faced complications, however, when emails leaked from Sony and revealed a crossover with “Men in Black.”The potential collaboration would involve Hill and Tatum’s characters from “21 Jump Street” interacting with the universe of the sci-fi comedy franchise.

Per hacked emails from Sony’s motion picture chief Amy Pascal, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones would not be included in the movie crossover in any prominent roles, if at all, according to the Wall Street 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 think that’s clean and rad and powerful,” 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 film.