Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I'm not being cute or cheeky with that headline. The idea of Michael Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence doing another BAD BOYS movie is genuinely exciting for me. Bay thrives in this universe. This is where he's at his best as a filmmaker... making a huge, ridiculously fun action spectacle with two very strong charismatic leads.

I've said it before and I'll probably say it another dozen times until someone tells me to shut up about it, but I believe deep down that BAD BOYS 2 is the kind of movie Bay sets out to make every time he directs a picture. That's the movie in his head, the one he's trying to put onscreen with every outing.

Now BAD BOYS 3 is still a long way from happening, but the first steps have been taken according to Borys Kit's Hollywood Reporter article.

Columbia Pictures has hired Peter Craig (who wrote THE TOWN which Ben Affleck is directing and the COWBOY BEBOP adaptation for Fox and Keanu Reeves) to script the next installment in the BAD BOYS franchise with an aim to bring back all the key players, including Bay, Bruckheimer, Smith and Lawrence.

Yes, yes, yes. Make it so.

-Quint
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