Word of the project first leaked as a result of the Sony hack, though TheWrap advanced the story in April 2015, reporting that after sending up reboots and sequels, the “Jump Street” franchise would send-up the current Hollywood trend of Shared Movie Universes by having Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum enter the “Men in Black” universe and investigate aliens. Let's hope he can find the same magic again if this goes ahead.James Bobin, the “Flight of the Conchords” alumnus who directed “The Muppets” and “Alice Through the Looking Glass” for Disney, is in early talks to direct the “23 Jump Street”/”Men in Black” crossover movie for Sony Pictures, TheWrap has learned. He also wrote **Grudge Match **and has a variety of other projects on the go, including working on the new TV series based on The Greatest American Hero with Lord and Miller. He has form with the series, since he was one of the writers on the last film. So it will be Rothman’s job initially to flesh out an idea that has everyone excited. Then again, their live-action projects take fractionally less of a time-commitment than an animation like The Lego Movie, so that might make this easier to squeeze in. They also may not want to tempt fate by trying to replicate their successful formula a third time, especially after they sent up the very idea of sequels so successfully this year. Depending on how the script turns out, Hill and Tatum should be back, but a bigger question lingers over directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who have seen their career skyrocket this year and might be too busy.
**22 Jump Street **has now made $320 million worldwide, so it was inevitable that Sony would want to leap back into that well. There’s no word yet on whether that will indeed form the plot, but a second sequel is now in development, with Rodney Rothman hired to write the script for **23 Jump Street.
The end of **22 Jump Street **featured a montage of possibly future adventures for Channing Tatum’s Jenko and Jonah Hill’s Schmidt, as Captain Dickson (Ice Cube) announced they were off to medical school next (and to about sixteen other establishments of learning after that).
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