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31 August 2009
Get Ready For Bad Boys 3
This shit just got real. Again.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Get Ready For Bad Boys 3

Bad Boys 2 may have been the sequel that nobody asked for, but we bought it anyway and it took a reported $273m worldwide. Its stars (well, Will Smith and Michael Bay) have risen astronomically in the years since the 1995 original, but The Hollywood Reporter says this morning that "all parties have expressed a willingness to return if a story can be hammered out".

Enter Peter Craig, who's knocking out the script as we speak. An established author of "darkly comic novels", and a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop under the tutelage of Tobias Wolff (thanks Wikipedia!), he's recently been working on the screenplay for Cowboy Bebop, adapted from the anime and set to star Keanu Reeves as Spike.

Bad Boys was solid but unremarkable. Bad Boys 2 was an absurdly overblown, late-coming surprise follow-up, which mixed the good (it's sporadically funny and has a freeway car chase which knocks a similar scene in its immediate contemporary The Matrix: Reloaded into a cocked hat), the bad (it was two and half bloody hours long) and the ugly (another, supremely bad-taste chase in which morgue-corpses are strewn all over the road). It was so ridiculous that it was a key inspirational source for Hot Fuzz.

So what do we think? Is there any way that Smith and Bay will actually turn out for this? And do we want them to? Was Bad Boys 2 fun enough to warrant more, or have we had enough already? Over to you...

Owen Williams

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evildave69 About me

22:33, 01 September 2009 | Report This Post
YES! The thing about the bad boys series is, its one of those films where you can just sit back and enjoy without actually having to think too much or actually at all. Great action and comedy scenes, just like Bay's transformers series. ... Read More

ydde21 About me

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This is such a bad idea I'm not even going to comment on it. Wait a minute... ... Read More

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as long as....
i found Bad Boys 2 to be pointless, but stupidly fun rubbish, i would whole heartedly welcome another one, on 2 conditions: 1: the original cast comes back. and 2: they dont try make it all family friendly by making it a PG-13, and cutting out all the violence and swearing. would be fucking pointless if they did that! ... Read More

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This summer's been lacking a hard-ass, funny as shit action thriller like should definitely make this -- it can't be worse than mers 2 ... Read More

Jasper_29 About me

22:46, 31 August 2009 | Report This Post
Bad Boys - Great. Bad Boys 2 - Shit Bad Boys 3 - Unnecessary (unless Tea Leoni & Megan Fox are in it!!) ... Read More

eddieryan About me

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I like the Bad Boys films, they're good fun. What I don't like is Michael Bay's insistence on over-saturating every shot and tweaking the contrast to its absolute limit. It works for a cheap music video but stretch that to two hours plus (hello Bad Boys 2) and you've got yourself a headache. ... Read More

Alistair About me

21:13, 31 August 2009 | Report This Post
If they do I hope that they get the hang of editing as the last one was at least an hour too long (also ignoring the rip off scenes from Police Story). This also has the abomination of Martin Lawrence so is not a good thing. ... Read More

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RE: Get Ready For Bad Boys 3
L: Scott_ We all know Joseph Gordon-Levitt should be Spike Spiegel anyway... erfect choice. The right build, the right age, the right look, lots and lots of talent. ... Read More

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