Will Smith and Martin Lawrence have joined forces to announce plans for the fourth installment within the Bad Boys collection.
Sony Pictures confirmed to Variety that Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah are each on board to direct Bad Boys 4. The duo additionally directed 2020’s Bad Boys For Life, which served as one of many last blockbusters on the field workplace earlier than the pandemic swept the globe.
Will Smith made the announcement official with a hyped put up to social media on Tuesday morning (January 31) declaring “It’s about that time” as he pulled as much as his co-star’s home with “Shake Ya Tailfeather” from the Bad Boys II soundtrack booming by way of his automobile’s audio system.
“It’s about that time. It’s official. Bad Boys for life,” Smith emphatically said earlier than they each realized 2020’s installment already used that title for the film. “We shouldn’t have known as it that although. The three was the ‘E’ however that is Bad Boys 4.
In addition to the followers, loads of Will and Martin’s movie star mates stuffed the remark part, with pleasure coming from the likes of Timbaland, DJ Jazzy Jeff, DJ Khaled and extra.
Bad Boys For Life raked in $426.5 million on the worldwide field workplace 25 years after 1995’s Bad Boys authentic collected $141 million globally.
Will Smith’s Hollywood aspirations have been in limbo together with his appearing profession quickly paused following his infamous slapping of Chris Rock on the 2022 Academy Awards.
Although, Martin Lawrence confirmed over the summer time in an interview with Ebony that he and Will have been nonetheless on the hook for yet one more Bad Boys movie.
“We got one more at least,” Lawrence stated in July. “For us to come together and prove that we can deliver, and we can pull people into the box office — that two Black stars, two sitcom stars, could make money at the box office [was huge].”
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