No Torch Passing In Bad Boys For Life

Some more retro ‘R’ 1990’s style action is coming our way again, they’re making another Bad Boys movie, with Joe Carnahan directing.  But how is it going?

“We couldn’t all get in a room, go through this thing and really ring it out,” Carnahan has said. “I’m a big believer in ‘Do the work at the script level until you’ve got something you know works.’ That everyone is happy with, the stars are happy with, the director is happy with, the studio is happy with.”

And it sounds like that script is coming together quite well, with Carnahan describing it as “the strongest script of any of those movies. Hands down. In a walk over.” Which may seem aggressively confident, but to be fair, for all the wise-cracking and bombastic spectacle of Michael Bay’s first two films, story was never their strong point. Carnahan continued, “Unless you’re Toy Story 3, usually third ones aren’t the strongest, and I think this one will be the strongest of the trilogy thus far.”

But probably the best news… no Expendables 3 style ‘torch passing’;

“There’s only one Will Smith and one Martin Lawrence,” Carnahan said. “You can’t replace those guys and I wouldn’t want to be involved if it wasn’t Will and Martin. They are that franchise.”