School will be in session for female cops.
By Brandon Wolfe
Sony Pictures is proving most predominate in providing female alternatives to its most popular male-driven franchises. First there was the all-female Ghostbusters reboot, which will open next summer, and now word has come down that the studio will also craft a girl-centric installment of its popular 21 Jump Street series. Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs, the writers of Comedy Central’s Broad City, have been hired to write a script, said to be in the same vein as the two existing Jump Street films.
This project will be produced in addition to another original-recipe Jump Street sequel with Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill returning. That film is still a question mark, as the end-credits sequence of 22 Jump Street seemed to take a flamethrower to the very idea of doing yet another sequel. It came out in last year’s Sony hacking scandal that the studio was considering merging the Jump Street universe with the Men In Black franchise for the next outing, but no word on if that idea is still in play.
Speaking of, how long until Sony greenlights Women In Black? Or Bad Girls? And then how will they convince people that those movies aren't a horror sequel or a Western, respectively?
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