Schmidt and Jenko are back on the beat. A new report has confirmed that a long-awaited third installment in the 21 Jump Street franchise is officially happening, with both Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum in talks to reprise their leading roles, alongside Ice Cube, who’s also discussing a return as Captain Dickson. Even better, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the duo who helmed the first two installments in the cult classic action crime comedy franchise and are coming off the smash hit Project Hail Mary, are back to serve as producers. The title, fittingly, will be 24 Jump Street, and yes, you read that right.

In place of the Lord Miller team-up, the threequel will be helmed by one of their frequent collaborators, Rodney Rothman, who has experience in the franchise, co-writing the screenplay for 22 Jump Street. It’s a bit of a full circle moment for him, as he was previously attached to the women-led Jump Street spin-off. He most recently joined forces with Lord to pen the script for the beloved Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and was also credited as a co-director on Miles Morales’ first web-slinging adventure. Not only will he be shooting the latest antics of the two bumbling undercover cop besties, but he also co-wrote the screenplay with Hill and Meghan Malloy. A lot of the original Jump Street DNA is being carried over to 24, and that also includes producer Neal H. Moritz.

Sony has been trying for years to find a way to return to Jump Street. The first film, a self-aware R-rated riot loosely based on the original police procedural series of the same name, was a smash hit, making over $200 million worldwide in Lord and Miller‘s live-action directorial debut. 22 Jump Street reached even greater heights by raking in over $331 million as the underachievers traded their undercover gig in high school for college. That made a 23 Jump Street seem inevitable, but despite the stars remaining hopeful, there’s been no sighting of Schmidt and Jenko since. Wildly enough, the closest we came to a new Jump Street was likely the bonkers rumored Men in Black crossover, which was revealed in the 2014 Sony Pictures hack and that Tatum called “the best script that I’ve ever read for a third movie.” Now, assuming negotiations go as expected, that dream, minus the Men in Black part, will finally become a reality.

What Was ’21 Jump Street’ About?

There are no plot details for 24 Jump Street yet, but the second film gave a lot of ideas at its end, from a med school setting to other classes, outer space, and more. The beloved comedy franchise began by following Schmidt and Jenko, former high school classmates who reunite and become friends as adults while working as police officers. After bungling a case by failing to read the suspect his Miranda rights, they’re reassigned to the newly revived titular undercover 21 Jump Street program, using their youthful appearances to infiltrate a high school and bust a drug ring. However, the buddy cop duo quickly finds that things have changed a lot in the few years since they walked the halls as actual students, forcing them to adapt and finally confront the teenage anxieties that never truly left them.

24 Jump Street is now officially in the works.

via Collider