21 Jump Street directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord have revealed a few more details of the Men in Black crossover film they were developing that was "very close to happening."
Miller and Lord were guests Happy Sad Confused and host Joshua Horowitz asked the directors about this 21 Jump Street/Men in Black crossover that seemed to be picking up a ton of steam in the 2010s.
"There was a… believe it or not… a Men in Black and 21 Jump Street crossover script that was very funny and very crazy that we really adored," Miller began.
"One of my favorite ideas is that the Men in Black… Like the black suits were like martial arts belts that you had to work your way up to black and that [Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum] were issued powder blue Men in Black suits," Lord added.
"It was basically the idea was that Jonah and Channing… a thing happened while they were doing their medical school adventure that got them embroiled into the world of Men in Black and they ended up teaming up to stop an alien takeover type of thing," Miller said. "So, it was very funny, it was very crazy, trying to sort of like manage these two franchises and not drive them both into the ground seemed like a real challenge."
Unfortunately, the movie never crossed the finish line, although Miller and Lord shared that it "came very close to happening."
This project, which was known as MIB 23, was at one time going to potentially be directed by The Muppets' James Bobin. While there was a lot of hope for the film, producer Walter Parkes admitted defeat in 2019, saying, "we gave it a shot. It turned out to be an impossible match-up."
Instead of MIB 23, the world was given Men in Black: International in 2019 with Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson. In our review, we said, "That lack of tension pervades the entirety of International. It feels like Men In Black by numbers, a trudge from one set-piece to the next untidily glued together by weak gags and sharp suits, never getting us to care about its characters or the world-changing stakes."
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Miller and Lord were guests Happy Sad Confused and host Joshua Horowitz asked the directors about this 21 Jump Street/Men in Black crossover that seemed to be picking up a ton of steam in the 2010s.
"There was a… believe it or not… a Men in Black and 21 Jump Street crossover script that was very funny and very crazy that we really adored," Miller began.
"One of my favorite ideas is that the Men in Black… Like the black suits were like martial arts belts that you had to work your way up to black and that [Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum] were issued powder blue Men in Black suits," Lord added.
"It was basically the idea was that Jonah and Channing… a thing happened while they were doing their medical school adventure that got them embroiled into the world of Men in Black and they ended up teaming up to stop an alien takeover type of thing," Miller said. "So, it was very funny, it was very crazy, trying to sort of like manage these two franchises and not drive them both into the ground seemed like a real challenge."
Unfortunately, the movie never crossed the finish line, although Miller and Lord shared that it "came very close to happening."
This project, which was known as MIB 23, was at one time going to potentially be directed by The Muppets' James Bobin. While there was a lot of hope for the film, producer Walter Parkes admitted defeat in 2019, saying, "we gave it a shot. It turned out to be an impossible match-up."
Instead of MIB 23, the world was given Men in Black: International in 2019 with Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson. In our review, we said, "That lack of tension pervades the entirety of International. It feels like Men In Black by numbers, a trudge from one set-piece to the next untidily glued together by weak gags and sharp suits, never getting us to care about its characters or the world-changing stakes."
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