Remember 21 Jump Street? For those who don’t, it was a TV show that starred Johnny Depp that featured a special team of young looking cops that would attend highschool and bust drug dealers.
Do you remember Jonah Hill. Yeah, he is in charge of making the big screen adaptation of this show titled only “Jump Street” and he is aiming to make it an “Insane R-Rated” version.
Get the Big Picture quotes Hill:
“Yeah, if you look at the opening episode of ‘21 Jump Street,’ you see a man looking at a picture of a cop holding a little boy’s hand, and you hear a crazy saxophone solo, and you pan up and it’s Johnny Depp looking at the picture playing the crazy saxophone solo. We’re not even spoofing the movie. It’s not strictly comedic, either. We’re doing a full-on action movie, blowing shit up.”
Now the show wasn’t so popular that this deviation of the light tv action to step up into a “full on action movie” but something feels off to me.
Oh yeah. Its being produced by Jonah Hill. Not that I think its a bad thing that he is getting into more behind the scenes work, but that a guy who mostly made his career playing roles of potheads and is now making an action film about cops that bust drug dealers.
Just feels weird to me.
I hope that his behind the scenes stuff is worth his presence. Its not that I don’t like Hill, but I am growing tired of him. He was awesome in Superbad, he was terrible in Sarah Marshall.
