After a decade of development, Ride Along 3 is starting to see renewed momentum.
Daniel Gold, the screenwriter behind the upcoming Amazon MGM Studios movie Tough Guys starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Gosling, is set to write a new take on the buddy cop story, with Kevin Hart and Ice Cube in talks to return for the Universal project. Also in talks to return is director Tim Story and producer Will Packer, the latter of whom is releasing the rom-com You, Me & Tuscany with the studio this weekend.
Universal had no comment on the potential project.
Hart and Ice Cube star in the film series as brothers-in-laws who happen to both work in law enforcement, each with drastically different levels of expertise, who often end up in the middle of Florida’s various crime underworlds.
It has been ten years since the last Ride Along movie hit theaters. The first Ride Along, out in 2014, grossed over $130 million at the domestic box office, while the second installment earned over $90 million in 2016, making it an overall profitable mid-budget franchise for the studio.
Ice Cube, who was last seen in sci-fi film War of the Worlds and in a cameo role in Sony’s Anaconda, is repped by UTA and Johnson Shapiro.
For his part, Hart was last in theaters with the video game adaptation Borderlands and is set to return for the fourth Jumanji movie, due out this December. He is repped by WME and 3Arts.
Story is repped by UTA and Johnson Shapiro, and Packer is repped by CAA and Johnson Shapiro.
