When the question of why a fan-favorite movie doesn\u2019t get a sequel comes up, the answers are usually pretty ambiguous: Stuff like time commitments, or not finding the best possible idea, or just general \u201cHey, I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s a crazy business.\u201d This is not the case with the third 21 Jump Street movie, especially if you ask Channing Tatum. Tatum knows exactly who to blame for the movie not getting made: Franchise producer Neil H. Moritz.<\/p>\n
Tatum namechecked Moritz\u2014a prolific producer with more than 100 film and TV credits to his name, including Sonic The Hedgehog, The Boys, and the Fast And Furious franchise\u2014while talking about the very blunt reason that he thinks 23 Jump Street will never happen, despite having \u201csincerely the best script I\u2019ve ever read for me and Jonah [Hill].\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI get asked more about Jump Street 3 than any other movie on the face of the planet that I\u2019ve ever done,\u201d Tatum said in a Variety interview<\/a> connected to his new film Roofman<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019ll ever happen. The problem is the overhead. It would cost as much as the actual budget of the film\u2014if not more\u2014because of all the producers involved. It\u2019s just too top-heavy. It falls over every time.\u201d Tatum went on to note that while he, Jonah Hill, Phil Lord, and Chris Miller have all agreed to take smaller producer fees to get the movie made, \u201cNeal\u2019s price for a producer fee is huge. And to be honest, that\u2019s what\u2019s killing it.\u201d<\/p>\n Which is a pretty surprising bit of name-and-shaming, even if we can kind of understand Tatum\u2019s frustration. (The Jump Street films weren\u2019t just well-liked when they came out in 2012<\/a> and 2014<\/a>; they were also highly lucrative, bringing in $200 and $330 million respectively\u2014ridiculously high numbers for studio comedies.) You could argue that\u00a022 Jump Street\u2018s ending\u2014where it pitches a series of increasingly ridiculous sequels for itself\u2014capped the franchise decently well, but, like, this is the guy who spent a decade vision-boarding himself as a live-action Gambit into existence; he doesn\u2019t give up projects he likes easily.<\/p>\n Channing Tatum wishes he’d said yes to Guillermo del Toro’s Beauty And The Beast<\/a>Channing Tatum is easing up on Gambit’s Cajun seasoning for Avengers: Doomsday<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the question of why a fan-favorite movie doesn\u2019t get a sequel comes up, the answers are usually…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-205916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}