Sidst vi skrev om ‘Bad Boys 3’ her på siden, kunne vi rapportere at man var på udkig efter David Guggenheim til at skrive manuskriptet til ‘Bad Boys 3′. I mellemtiden er Guggenheim blevet skrottet til fordel for Joe Carnahan og titlen på filmen er ændret til ‘Bad Boys for Life’.
I et interview med filmsiden Collider fortæller Carnahan, da han blev spurgt om hvorvidt de 15 år der er gået siden ‘Bad Boys 2’ vil spille en rolle i ‘Bad Boys for Life’:
“We’re certainly not ignoring that, and that is a part of it. What happens 15 years on and where’s your life at now and what did you foresee yourself, it’s really rich material in that way. That part I’m really excited about, it’s a lot of exploring where are they now.”
Der han blev spurgt til om hvorvidt filmen bliver R-rated eller PG-13:
“I think it’s gonna be R. I don’t think we’re trying to make a PG-13 version of Bad Boys. We haven’t discussed the rating, but both the other films were R-rated; Deadpool made $800 million globally and was an R-rated film, the new Wolverine is R-rated. I think these things don’t factor it, my theory is people gravitate more toward R-rated films than PG-13, I think the PG-13 thing is betwixt and between now. It’s not fundamentally rooted in any metric where you can go, ‘Okay, we can prove that this had success because it was PG-13.’ Look at the Matrix trilogy, that was wildly successful and they were all R-rated films. Unless things change, I think we’re making a Bad Boys film and that’s an R-rated movie.”
Carnahan blev også spurgt om filmens skurk(e):
“It wasn’t challenging [coming up with the antagonist]. It should’ve been. You’ve got all these years in the game and you’ve made all these enemies, you’ve accumulated all this, so in that respect it would be easy. But I don’t wanna say anything else because I don’t wanna ruin the delicacy of who our antagonist is, because I think it’s very cool. It’s not one person. It’s a multi-headed hydra, I’ll say that. It works beautifully.”
Will Smith og Martin Lawrence er bekræftet i at vende tilbage i deres ikoniske roller. ‘Bad Boys for Life’ har en forventet dansk premiere den 11. januar 2018.