Deadline is reporting that 22 Jump Street co-writer Rodney Rothman is now working on the script for the Jump Street female spinoff, with the plan being for him to call the the shots on the movie too.
Sony has now found another screenwriter to work on the spinoff; one who’s not only a veteran of the Jump Street series, but is also now lined up to make their feature-length directorial debut on this particular “extension” of the Jump Street brand.
The Jump Street female spinoff (for lack of a better way to describe the project) has already gone through two sets of screenwriting duos, in the forms of Lucia Aniello and Paul Downs (Broad City), as well as Lizzie and Wendy Molyneux (Bob’s Burgers).
22 Jump Street famously concludes with a montage of clips from fake sequels to the movie – poking fun at the very concept of a Jump Street TV show-turned movie franchise, much in the same way that 22 Jump Street riffs on its own existence. That hasn’t prevented Sony from attempting to keep the Jump Street series going in real-life all the same; in fact, the studio is now working on a pair of Jump Street film spinoffs, in the forms of a crossover with the Men in Black franchise (dubbed MIB 23) and a film about a pair of undercover female police officers who are connected to the Jump Street program in some way.