The chances that we will get a third movie in the Bad Boys series are very slim, but at least there is a possible Bad Boys TV spinoff to look forward to. NBC has just announced that they have ordered a pilot of the show which focuses on Sydney Burnett, featured in Bad Boys II and portrayed by Gabrielle Union.
Union will reprise her role in the TV show as well, while also serving as an executive producer. The Blacklist duo Brandon Margolis and Brandon Sonnier will serve as writers for the show, while the producer of the first two Bad Boys movies, Jerry Bruckheimer will be one of the executive producers as well.
Although we don’t have much information about the show, NBC revealed the plot details for this spinoff:
“DEA agent Burnett has a fresh start in her new job as an LAPD detective. She’s partnered with Nancy McKenna, a working mom who can’t help but look at Syd’s freedom with some grass-is-greener envy. These two have totally different lifestyles and approaches, but they both are at the top of their fields in this action-packed, character-driven procedural.”
In the Bad Boys universe, Sydney Burnett is Marcus Burnett’s (Martin Lawrence) sister and Mike Lowrey’s (Will Smith) Love interest.
Although the franchise didn’t get a lot of praise from critics, it was loved by the audience and performed very well at the box office. The second entry in the series was released in 2003, and plans for the third installment started shaping up in 2008. After numerous script and director changes, Sony Pictures Entertainment announced in 2015 that there will be two sequels instead of one. Unfortunately, in August 2017, after various pushbacks of release dates, the studio completely removed both sequels from their release schedule. Martin Lawrence later confirmed that the movies are unlikely to happen.
