‘Men In Black’ Crossover Still A Possibility Says ’21 Jump Street’ Filmmakers (Dear God, No)

You’ll recall in late 2014 that movie blogs (including ourselves), drunk on the waves of excessive information flow and exhibiting bad judgment, went whole hog reporting every little fart of data that was illegally obtained by hackers from Sony Pictures private corporate email communications. And… it was kind of news. But then freedom was threatened with a silly comedy about North Korea, and then things thankfully went back to normal.

But during that selfsame Wild West period when the Daily Beast was sorting through Sony emails like a lion gnawing on a bloody carcass kill, lots of bite-size but still major news leaked out. Some of these conversations about film projects were just that— conversations and ideas not quite fully formed or crystallized, but the possibilities were too tantalizing to not report for many. One of those tidbits was an idea kicked around for a “21 Jump Street” and “Men In Black” crossover, instead of a regular third “23 Jump Street”...