Chalk this one up under guilty pleasures. Apart from all the hard times we give Michael Bay for the Transformers films we still get a kick out of the Bad Boys films. At least Todd and I do, I can't speak for the others. The first night I was ever questioned by local law enforcement here in Toronto [Vancouver back in the day is a whole other story] was the night I was going out to see Bad Boys back in 1995. It served as a launching pad for Michael who would follow the first film with The Rock the next year which pretty much cemented his place in the Hollywood action film scene. It would be eight years until Will Smith and Martin Lawrence would get back in front of the camera again for Bad Boys II. It did double the business of the first one. That second time it was a whole lot louder, crasser, meaner and more prejudiced, things we've started to pick on Michael Bay for, but we still loved it back then. Will we love it again? Columbia Pictures is hoping yes.
Columbia Pictures is developing a third installment of the high-octane "Bad Boys" franchise, tapping Peter Craig to pen the screenplay. 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. 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. Craig, repped by CAA and Management 360, co-wrote "The Town," which Ben Affleck is directing for Warner Bros. and which shoots in Boston next month. He is adapting anime "Cowboy Bebop" for 20th Century Fox and Keanu Reeves.
Bad Boys 3? Wow, my dream would come true!!!!!
Just kidding...
So the guy who is writing a BAD BOYS sequel is also responsible for the COWBOY BEBOP adaptation? Um...
If they can get rid of Martin Lawrence, Michael Bay, and make Joe Pantoliano as the main lead than yes I will go see it..
Ecch. Sad to see this posted on Twitch...
It's the end of the world as Twitch readers know it...and I feel fine.
Snobby? No, I just have a baseline set of standards. You ought to try it sometime.
And btw, I actually wasn't talking about you Rhythm ;)
Michael Bay is cinematic AIDS. But the truly awful part of this news was:
"So the guy who is writing a BAD BOYS sequel is also responsible for the COWBOY BEBOP adaptation? Um…"
That. Oh jebus....
I really liked the first film and it just spiraled from there. The second film just lost something for me, a third is pointless.