A third installment of the
Bad Boys franchise is in the works at Columbia Pictures, which has set Peter Craig to write the screenplay.
According to
Variety, the hope is to have a script that would reunite director Michael Bay, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. At this point, with the project in the early stages, none has a deal to return.
The
Bad Boys movies star Smith and Lawrence as Miami detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett, caught up in cases involving car chases and explosions.
All parties have expressed a willingness to return if a story can be hammered out. One potential hurdle, however, would be the costly deals with the players.
No production date has been set.
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And I have to agree with Todd89. Smith's ego is leaving the stratosphere! The way he's pushing his son into the biz, and onto us, and bastardizing the beloved Karate Kid franchise it unforgivable.
CBJunior, I hope the third Transformers is a re-do and they totally forget about Bays screwing with Transformers original story, of crash landing here in 1,000,000 B.C. and then being reactivated by the ships search and repair droids, in our time, after an earthquake reveals the ship.
The way Bay did it, was just a rip off of War of the Worlds, when the meteors crashed and the alien ships emerged.
I never really got into this series. It just seemed too ghetto for my tastes.
I was more of an Axel Foley guy myself, which I'm happy to hear, a sequel is being made to. I hope they don't kill off Billy like was pitched as a storyline. That would suck supremely!
I'm really looking foward to this one. Hopefully, it will end up having at least a summer 2012 release. 2011 might be pushing it, but hopefully not.
Another thing... I'm not sure weather I would want to see Bay do Transformers 3 or BB3 first. I just hope he takes the next Transformers a little more seriously.
I'll only watch this film for Martin Lawrence and a few other people. Will has to come down to earth, since he has his head in the clouds. Over hyped, jerk that he is.
And everyone's saying the 2 actors are overpriced? Hello?! Michael Bay with a 75 million cut from T2. He won't come back cheap.
Marten Lawrence, down to earth, doesn't demand twenty mill per movie and is in deed funny.
Put them together in another Bad Boys will only get their career going again. Hell just put them in a comedy together and I'll be fine with it.