Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs Directing Duo In Talks For Jonah Hill’s 21 Jump Street
Jonah Hill’supcoming21 Jump Streetremake is getting weirder (and more awesome) the more we hear about it. First,Hill mentionedthat he wanted to make a “Bad Boys meets John Hughes” R-rated action film, and nowwe’ve learnedthatCloudy with a Chance of Meatballsdirectors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are in negotiations to direct. I personallyloved the heck out ofCloudy, and have firmly committed myself to following Lord and Miller’s careers very closely. The duo also created the MTV animated seriesClone High, and have written and co-exec produced forHow I Met Your Mother. Basically, they rank high on the scales of awesome.
The original series was about young looking cops who went undercover to tackle youth crimes, and notably featured Johnny Depp among its cast. Hill has evenmentionedthat he has a part in the film for Depp, if he wants it.
An earlier quote from Hill on the project viaComplex:
[Sony execs said] they were gonna let me make my kind of movie—an R-rated, insane, Bad-Boys-meets-John Hughes-type movie—and I told them the second they don’t, I’m not gonna be involved anymore. We’re not even spoofing the movie. It’s not strictly comedic, either. We’re doing a full-on action movie, blowing shit up.
Clearly, it doesn’t seem like they’re going to try and emulate the original series too much. If anything, I’m getting a realHot Fuzz/Pineapple Expressvibe from his description.
I don’t have any great attachment to the original21 Jump Street, so I’m all for Hill and Bacall doing something completely different. And if Lord and Miller are involved, even better.
