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Why you may never see Bad Boys 3


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Believe it or not, it's been more than 20 years since Will Smith and Martin Lawrence took their talents to South Beach for the action-packed buddy-cop classic Bad Boys. A pitch-perfect mix of high-octane action and humor, it made film stars of both Smith and Lawrence while putting then-unknown director Michael Bay on the map—and made a whopping $65 million in U.S. theaters against its relatively modest $19 million budget.

Those numbers were enough for Columbia Pictures to greenlight a sequel, and eight years later, we got Bad Boys II. The "Bayhem" was bigger, louder, and a lot more expensive the second time around, but it was still an awful lot of fun…and it proved another lucrative investment for Columbia. Talk of Bad Boys III started while II was still in theaters, but after years—and countless fits and starts—we're still waiting. At this point, there are more than a few good reasons to think a third Bad Boys may never happen.

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I would think Will Smith's asking price would be too high to justify a sequel.

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It's a big money maker for Columbia so I think they could justify it. Plus, is his asking price really all that much? Netflix could afford him for Bright...

Sure, he's a box office draw but he's not exactly been making quality films these days. I don't think he's been in anything good in the last 10 years. Getting back into the BB franchise makes a lot of sense, even if he has to reduce is price.

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Non-spoiler review of 'Bad Boys for Life' by Oliver Harper.

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ah , you came back to admit your OP was wrong!

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