Looks like Detectives Lowry and Bennett are back on the case. Well....maybe. Columbia Pictures has hired Peter Craig to hammer out a script for a proposed 3rd film in the Bad Boys franchise. The most recent film, Bad Boys 2, was released in '03 and grossed upwards of $130M domestic. There's just one problem, however. None of the principles are signed on for the film as of yet. Not Will Smith, or Martin Lawrence, or even director Michael Bay. Columbia's hope is that a workable script will lure them all to return, but right now nothing is set in stone.
What's that old saying? God answers all prayers, it's just sometimes His answer is "no"? I take it that's been his ultimate answer to all my silent prayers that the Bad Boys franchise was dead and buried after that abysmal second film. I don't care how cool Hot Fuzz made that movie seem in retrospect, I suffered watching that crap. And before you hammer me too badly, I am a huge fan of the original Bad Boys(mainly because of Tea Leoni, though). My curiosity about this project is piqued only because I wonder what they will do if Lawrence or Smith don't sign on. I'm pretty sure the film will proceed even without Michael Bay behind the director's chair, but without the actors do they give up? Or do they hire two actors to replace them and go straight-to-DVD? Time will tell.
Reuters has more on the story here.
