Will Smith shared a video on Instagram with a Bad Boys 4 production update.
Introduction
Bad Boys is a 1995 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Michael Bay in his feature directorial debut, created by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, and featuring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith as two Miami narcotics detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey. The film gotten mixed reviews from critics, but was commercially successful and produced two sequels: Bad Boys II (2003), Bad Boys for Life (2020). A currently untitled fourth film is set for a release in 2024.
Movie Plot
Lifelong friends Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett are given Miami Police narcotics detectives investigating $100 million of seized Mafia heroin, their greatest career bust which was stolen from a secure police vault. Internal Affairs suspects that it was an inside job and debilitates to closed down the whole department unless they recover the drugs within 72 hours.
Mike asks one of his informants and ex-girlfriend Maxine “Max” Logan to look for individuals who are newly rich and therefore suspects. She gets herself and her best friend Julie Mott hired as escorts by Eddie Dominguez, a crooked former cop.
The party is soon hindered by Dominguez’s French drug kingpin boss Fouchet and his henchmen Casper, Ferguson, and Noah. To advance cover his tracks because of this slip up, Fouchet kills Dominguez and Max, whereas Julie manages to elude. The madam who contracted Julie and Max is disposed of by Noah, who then knocks out Mike as he investigates Max’s passing.
Quickly calling the police station, Julie demands on talking only to Mike, who is taking after up on a lead with the Madam. Knowing she never met Mike, captain Conrad Howard forces Marcus to imitate him to talk to her. At her flat, Marcus and Julie are assaulted by a few of Fouchet’s henchmen, one of whom Marcus murders. When they meet with Mike, Marcus and Mike need to impersonate each other, with Mike living at the Burnett home while Marcus remains with Julie at Mike’s. The two battle to keep up the charade in Julie’s presence, but she soon starts to suspect the truth.
Looking through mugshots, Julie distinguishes Noah as one of the henchmen. The trio go to Club Hell, one of Noah’s known hangouts. After being spotted, Marcus knocks Casper unconscious amid a washroom battle. Julie tries to murder Fouchet but Marcus stops her. In the resulting car chase, Mike murders Noah. The three manage to induce away, but are caught on camera by a news helicopter. The following report is later seen by Marcus’s family, who were told that he was briefly reassigned to Cleveland.
Mike and Marcus meet their old informant Jojo and learn about the area of the chemist who is cutting the stolen drugs. The three return to Mike’s flat, where Marcus’ spouse Theresa confronts them and affirms Julie’s doubt they have been impersonating each other. Fouchet and his gang appear up and capture Julie.
Mike and Marcus’ office is closed down by Internal Affairs. In spite of being reassigned, Howard delays the order, giving Mike and Marcus more time to solve the case. They get to Dominguez’s private police database profile and learn that the police secretary Francine is his previous sweetheart. She was being extorted by Fouchet and Dominguez after they took bare photos of her, threatening to post them at her kids’ school.
Mike, Marcus, and detectives Sanchez and Ruiz, head to the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airplane terminal. Amid a fierce shootout, they murder Fouchet’s remaining henchmen, including Casper and Ferguson, and rescue Julie. They chase a escaping Fouchet and force his car into a concrete barrier. As he tries to escape, Mike shoots him in the leg and captures him at gunpoint.
After a tense discussion with Marcus, Fouchet surreptitiously draws a weapon but is shot to death by Mike before he can murder Marcus, avenging Max’s death. An depleted Marcus leaves Julie with Mike and heads home, eager to be rejoined with his wife and family.
Will Smith shared a video on Instagram with a Bad Boys 4 production update.
In the video, Smith says that the upcoming Bad Boys 4 is in the “last eight days” of production. His caption also reads, “Damn, I Love this city! Bad Boys 4 is coming fast y’all.”
Check out the Instagram video underneath:
What do we know about Bad Boys 4?
Reported in January 2020 following the victory of Bad Boys for Life, Bad Boys 4 is being directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. Shooting for bad boys 4 initially started in 2023 but was postponed because of the Screen On-screen characters Guild-American Federation of Tv and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) strike.
Smith is once again reprising his role as Detective Lieutenant Mike Lowrey in Bad Boys 4, whereas Martin Lawrence is returning to play his partner, Marcus Burnett.
The movie bad boys 4 moreover stars Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Paola Núñez, Tasha Smith, John Salley, Eric Dane, DJ Khaled, Ioan Gruffudd, Rhea Seehorn, Joyner Lucas, and Quinn Hemphill.
“With Jerry Bruckheimer [high-profile producer] movies, we always tend to think about all the action and the insane explosions,” El Arbi and Fallah already told Collider about the film. “But actually, it’s the characters of his movies that are the reason why the audience loves to watch them. So, we went further and more profound on those character moments. But everything that we learned, in terms of camera movements and just coordinating on set, we attempted to push ourselves and go even advance.
In some cases in bad boys 4 we had a few funky moments and funky shots that we didn’t attempt on the last one because it was perhaps a small more classical. This time, we go more funky and more loco on this one.”
Bad Boys 4 is as of now planned to release in the United States on June 14, 2024.
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