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24 Jump Street release date and cast: Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are back 13 years later — and one 22 Jump Street end-credits gag came true

24 Jump Street release date and cast: Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are back 13 years later — and one 22 Jump Street end-credits gag came true

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October 1, 2026 9:04 am

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24 Jump Street release date and cast: Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are back 13 years later — and one 22 Jump Street end-credits gag came true — Image credit: Legion Media

Sony finally dated the sequel nobody believed would happen — and the funniest part is that the movie predicted its own title as a joke in 2014.

It's real, it's dated, and it skipped a number: 24 Jump Street hits theaters December 10, 2027, with Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, and Ice Cube all officially returning — thirteen years after 22 Jump Street made north of $330 million by being a sequel about how sequels are a scam.

Which brings us to the title. Anyone who sat through 22 Jump Street's end credits remembers the montage: a machine-gun parade of fake future sequels — 23 Jump Street: Medical School, 25 Jump Street: A Semester at Sea, 43 Jump Street: Mariachi School, all the way to 2121 Jump Street in space. Sandwiched in that list was 24 Jump Street: Foreign Exchange Students. Twelve years later, the actual franchise is leapfrogging 23 and releasing an actual 24 Jump Street. The gag poster was the real roadmap; the deleted number even has an in-house explanation, per producer Phil Lord:

"We developed a '23 Jump Street,' and I think this is just out of respect for that."

A sequel skipping a number to honor a version of itself that never existed is the most 22 Jump Street joke imaginable, and this time it's the actual studio paperwork.

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Ice Cube as Captain Dickson, back for the new Jump Street. Image credit: Legion Media

The particulars

Behind the camera: Rodney Rothman directs — he co-wrote 22 Jump Street and co-directed the Oscar-winning Into the Spider-Verse — from a script by Rothman, Hill, and Meghan Malloy.
Lord and Miller produce rather than direct this time, alongside Tatum, Hill, Reid Carolin, Matt Dines, and franchise fixture Neal H. Moritz.
The lost decade, explained: Sony developed 23 Jump Street after 2014, then shelved it in favor of a Men in Black crossover — the infamous MIB 23 — which then also never happened. The franchise spent ten years hostage to a pun.
The date is a statement: December 10, 2027 drops Schmidt and Jenko into awards-season December, announced the same day Sony dated Ridley Scott's Treasure Island.

Plot details are locked away, including what undercover assignment could plausibly await two men now pushing their mid-forties. Grad school was already the joke. Foreign exchange remains available.