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Sony Planning ‘Jump Street,’ ‘Men In Black’ Crossover Movie

Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill

(Photo : Reuters Pictures ) Jump Street crossover movie Men In Black


According to an article in The Verge, Sony's plan for "Jump Street" and "Men In Black" had been revealed by the email leaked done by the hackers.


According to The Wall Street Journal, the leaked email revealed the plan of the movie studio regarding a crossover involving the "Jump Street" and "Men in Black" franchises, which will be released in 2016 or 2017.

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Based on the email from Hannah Minghella, the president of production for Sony's Columbia Pictures, the movie does not have a script yet, but they will give a green light signal once the concept and the talent involved are all settled.

However, the emails gave information that the crossover movie won't include the "Men in Black" lead actors, Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith but "Jump Street" lead actors, Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill are expected to be in the movie. It also revealed the excitement expressed by Hill, according to him the merge with "Men In Black" is clean and powerful.

The emails also mentioned that the director of the "Jump Street" movies, Phil Lord and Chris Miller will produce the film and may also direct it. Another letter also revealed that the lawyer of the "Men in Black" executive producer Steven Spielberg wants to secure the participation of Spielberg in the film. The president of worldwide business affairs and operations of Sony Pictures, Andrew Gumpert wrote that they haven't lost hope in "Men in Black" franchise even though the last "Men in Black" movie did not do as well as they had hoped.

The "Jump Street" franchise is a film adaptation of 1980s television series,"21 Jump Street" which starred, Johnny Depp. The success of the movie resulted to another film franchise titled "22 Jump Street". Both films featured actors, Tatum and Hill.

Meanwhile, "Men In Black" is a film series based on Marvel comic book series "The Men in Black". The first "Men In Black" film was released in 1997 followed by "Men In Black II" in 2002 and the third film "Men In Black III" was released in 2012. The film series featured the actors, Jones and Smith.

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