If you were getting excited at the idea of crossing the alien-hunting action comedy of the Men In Black films with the undercover antics of the Jump Street series, Jonah Hill is here to throw a cold glass of reality juice in your face: he's not sure it's going to happen.
Despite studio Sony pushing this one, releasing the logo treatment above and hiring Alice Through The Looking Glass director James Bobin to aid in developing it, things have been awfully quiet on the MIB 23 front. And now Hill, out promoting War Dogs, seems to think it'll never actually materialise.
“I had the idea,” Hill tells the Toronto Sun. “But I doubt that movie will get made.” Why, you might ask? Sounds like the idea, which would have had Hill's Schmidt and Channing Tatum's Jenko meeting two younger (i.e. cheaper than Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones) agents, is too unwieldy to work.
“It’s too complicated,” Hill explains. “They’re trying to make all the deals, but it’s kind of impossible with all the Men In Black stuff. The Jump Street films were so fun to make and the whole joke of them was they were making fun of remakes and sequels and reboots and then now it’s become a giant sequel, reboot. It’s almost become what we were making fun of and it’s hard to maintain that joke when it’s so high stakes.”
He's honestly more excited at the prospect of a third Jump Street film, even given that most sequel ideas were used in the hilarious credits sequence from 22 Jump Street. So while MIB 23 may yet happen, its future seems more in doubt than ever.