It looks like Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Ice Cube are moving into 24 Jump Street.
However, after The Hollywood Reporter learned Wednesday that the threequel was in development at Sony Pictures, it begged the question: What happened to 23 Jump Street, as the last film in the action-comedy franchise was titled 22 Jump Street?
THR asked Sony for more information on the reason behind the new installment’s title, but did not hear back at the time of publication. Until the answer is revealed (and it honestly might not be until the film’s released), there are definitely a few justifications fans can speculate about.
For one, the creative team might be sticking to the meta nature of the franchise. Let me refresh your memory, as it has been more than a decade since the last installment came out. At the beginning of the 2014 pic, Jenko (Tatum) and Schmidt (Hill) learn that the Captain Dickson-led (Ice Cube) undercover police base has been moved across the street from the old Korean church at 21 Jump Street to the old Vietnamese church at the new address (the sequel’s title, wink wink).
“I can’t believe the Koreans bought their church back,” Jenko says as Schmidt adds, “Yeah, I mean good thing there was an even bigger abandoned church directly across the street.”
