21 jump street.....THE MOVIE?!

[Leanne]

Jonah Hill Promises 'New Characters' For '21 Jump Street, Plans To Shoot 'Early Next Year'

It still sounds almost too good to be true, but "21 Jump Street" really is happening. Jonah Hill co-wrote the script, is executive producing and will presumably star in some capacity. "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs" helmers Phil Lord and Chris Miller are directing. None of this is new information, but it remains exciting. MTV's Josh Horowitz got an update from Hill recently at the press junket for "Get Him to the Greek" and it seems that things are moving right along.

"I think we're starting early next year... January or February is when we're planning on starting shooting," he said. And then the talk turned, as it always does, to the possibility of a Johnny Depp cameo. Depp, of course, starred in the original series, one of his major breakout roles. And Josh has been trying to engineer a cameo appearance for some time.

The latest is... there's no news to report. Hill remains hopeful that it will happen, but he's not counting on anything. "We wrote him a really, really funny cameo and I just hope he does it, it would be really cool," he said.

Josh also asked Hill to speak to how his take on the classic TV series fits into the original's universe. "We're basically just fascinated and interested in the idea of going back to high school and getting to relive those high school years," he said. "There's kind of a 'Back to the Future' element in that. Being young-looking cops was a great device to get to go back to high school again."

Speaking specifically to how the original show's characters factor in, Hill says they won't. Not necessarily, anyway. "It's not like anyone's playing Johnny's character, anyone's playing Peter DeLuise's character-- these are new characters that we're creating for the film and there might be some reference to some former 'Jump Street' alums."

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Oh well at least they're not wrecking the old characters we know and love.

[sonyab1974]

Jun 3, 2010 23:44:07 GMT 1 Leanne said:

Jonah Hill Promises 'New Characters' For '21 Jump Street, Plans To Shoot 'Early Next Year'

It still sounds almost too good to be true, but "21 Jump Street" really is happening. Jonah Hill co-wrote the script, is executive producing and will presumably star in some capacity. "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs" helmers Phil Lord and Chris Miller are directing. None of this is new information, but it remains exciting. MTV's Josh Horowitz got an update from Hill recently at the press junket for "Get Him to the Greek" and it seems that things are moving right along.

"I think we're starting early next year... January or February is when we're planning on starting shooting," he said. And then the talk turned, as it always does, to the possibility of a Johnny Depp cameo. Depp, of course, starred in the original series, one of his major breakout roles. And Josh has been trying to engineer a cameo appearance for some time.

The latest is... there's no news to report. Hill remains hopeful that it will happen, but he's not counting on anything. "We wrote him a really, really funny cameo and I just hope he does it, it would be really cool," he said.

Josh also asked Hill to speak to how his take on the classic TV series fits into the original's universe. "We're basically just fascinated and interested in the idea of going back to high school and getting to relive those high school years," he said. "There's kind of a 'Back to the Future' element in that. Being young-looking cops was a great device to get to go back to high school again."

Speaking specifically to how the original show's characters factor in, Hill says they won't. Not necessarily, anyway. "It's not like anyone's playing Johnny's character, anyone's playing Peter DeLuise's character-- these are new characters that we're creating for the film and there might be some reference to some former 'Jump Street' alums."

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Oh well at least they're not wrecking the old characters we know and love.

Oh good! They will be using new characters.. And yeah at least they won't be wrecking old characters that we love. And I will be shocked if Johnny makes a cameo appearance.

[sonyab1974]

OH NO! Look!

www.imdb.com/name/nm2849934/

I hope this is just a rumor! I don't want him playing Tom Hanson! He is way to young anyway! I don't want ANYONE playing Tom Hanson or any of the characters!

[Leanne]

I have no idea who that is lol! I thought they were going for new characters

[sonyab1974]

Aug 11, 2010 19:30:24 GMT 1 Leanne said:

I have no idea who that is lol! I thought they were going for new characters

I don't know who that guy is either! They must have changed their minds about getting all new characters.

[hansonsangel]

[Leanne]

Whoever he is he doesn't scream Hanson to me. Psycho criminal maybe, but not Officer Hanson. Why can't the people who made the new A Team film make the 21 Jump Street film? They'd do a good job and stay relatively true to the characters!

[sonyab1974]

Aug 18, 2010 11:12:47 GMT 1 Leanne said:

Whoever he is he doesn't scream Hanson to me. Psycho criminal maybe, but not Officer Hanson.

ROFLMAOPMP! Good one! And yeah you are right! Hmm if the rumors are true and he is Tom Hanson, maybe he is Tom Jr Jr! Tom's grandson.

[aplsdka]

Eew, yeah, he definitely doesn't have a Hanson vibe at all. I could see him as Booker the most out of the group, and since Hanson and Booker were paralleled a fair bit, it would be really bad to have this guy as Hanson. Ruin the whole point of Hanson. If he's a grandson/son/idkwhat that'd be better.

[Leanne]

Yeah that'd be a little bit better if he was Hanson's kid or something. I just get a bad feeling about this film. *sigh*

[Leanne]

Apparently they're looking to cast Emma Stone in the movie:

Stone is also considering the female lead for Sony's big screen incarnation of "21 Jump Street." The story comes from Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall and Phil Lord ("Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs") is set to direct. Hill starred alongside Stone in "Superbad."

Production on "Jump Street" is expected to begin early next year. It's unclear whether Stone could then easily segue to the new "Spider-Man" or whether the films would conflict.

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I don't think I agree with that. The female lead was Holly, who's black. You didn't see The A Team film re-casting BA as a white man. I know they're meant to be different characters and all in the 21 Jump Street movie but wasn't one of the original appeals of 21 JS that the characters were of different ethnicities etc? I hope this doesn't come across wrong btw!

[sonyab1974]

Who the hell is Emma Stone? And yeah Holly was the female lead! And you didn't come across wrong to me.

Sept 24, 2010 11:38:57 GMT 1 Leanne said:

Apparently they're looking to cast Emma Stone in the movie:

Stone is also considering the female lead for Sony's big screen incarnation of "21 Jump Street." The story comes from Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall and Phil Lord ("Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs") is set to direct. Hill starred alongside Stone in "Superbad."

Production on "Jump Street" is expected to begin early next year. It's unclear whether Stone could then easily segue to the new "Spider-Man" or whether the films would conflict.

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I don't think I agree with that. The female lead was Holly, who's black. You didn't see The A Team film re-casting BA as a white man. I know they're meant to be different characters and all in the 21 Jump Street movie but wasn't one of the original appeals of 21 JS that the characters were of different ethnicities etc? I hope this doesn't come across wrong btw!

[Leanne]

Emma Stone:

[sonyab1974]

Oh!!!! I thought Emma Stone is a new character for the movie! That's why I wanted to know who the hell is she! ROFL!

Sept 25, 2010 18:51:39 GMT 1 Leanne said:

Emma Stone:

[talentindepp]

My daughter said she had heard about them doing and remake of JS.
I've talked about this until I'm blue in the face. This is the decade of lets remake tv shows and movies from the 70's and 80's. Does anyone agree with me? Starsky and Hutch, Miami Vice (which stunk and I am a vicer too) Now the A-team and so on.
So now they are going to do JS. Well I really don't think they'd have any cameos on this. Andddd that guy was it Zoe? Well he was born in 86 just in time for the original JS to play. I don't know there has been maybe a remake or two that I've enjoyed and thought they did a great job but you know what it was done with the original actors, like Harrison Ford for Indiana Jones and Sylvestor for Rocky. But being Jump street is about young looking cops I don't think the originals could be on it. Though with Johnny's high cheek bones he does look older than when he was Hanson, but still looks young for his age when he is clean shaven and stuff.
Of course I'd go see it I did the other's just to see out of curiousity. Sue