‘Bad Boys For Life’ Will Have Multiple Villains
“What becomes of Bad Boys when they’re not boys anymore?” isa questionwriter-directorJoe Carnahan(The Grey) wants to ask withBad Boys for Life. Carnahan’s sequel wasoriginally scheduledto open in theaters next summer, but Sony pushed the release date back, giving the director more time to polish the script. Carnahan is still hard at work on the script, and thankfully he’s still sharing details about it.
Below, learn more about theBad Boys3villains.
TheBad Boysfilms aren’t known for great villains.Bad Boys IIhad a memorable antagonist with actorJordi Mollá, who played an unhinged, coked out drug lord, but theBad Boysmovies have far more fun with the heroes than the villains. Maybe that’ll change withBad Boys for Lifebecause Carnahan has what he believes is a very cool group of villains (viaCollider):
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.
Carnahan went on to say the sequel will show how the past 15 years have changed Mike Lowery (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence). There’s one change we probably shouldn’t expect from thisBad Boysfilm, though, and it comes down to its rating. The director said “we’re making aBad Boysfilm, and that’s an R-rated movie”:
I think it’s gonna be R. I don’t think we’re trying to make a PG-13 version ofBad Boys. We haven’t discussed the rating, but both the other films were R-rated;Deadpoolmade $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 may 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 aBad Boysfilm, and that’s an R-rated movie.
A part of theBad Boysseries' appeal is the R-rating, which Michael Bay took full advantage of onBad Boys II– a movie I can’t imagine watching on basic cable. A PG-13Bad Boysmovie doesn’t sound like aBad Boysmovie at all, so it’s great to learn Carnahan and all involved aren’t trying to turn this series into something it’s not all these years later, at least when it comes to the sequel’s rating.
