Jerry Bruckheimer has given an update regarding a potential Bad Boys 5.
Speaking with Deadline, Bruckheimer was asked if he was in “early development” on a potential fifth Bad Boys movie following the box office success of Bad Boys: Ride or Die.
What did Jerry Bruckheimer say about Bad Boys 5?
“We’ve had discussions but we want to see how this one did at the box office, and I’m sure we’ll have conversations this week,” he answered.
Bad Boys: Ride or Die opened in United States theaters on June 7, 2024. So far, it has made approximately $118.6 million at the global box office off of an estimated $100 million budget.
Regarding Bad Boys: Ride or Die’s box office receipts, Bruckheimer said, “If you make something the audience wants to see, they’re going to go see it. It’s that simple. If it works for them, they’ll line up. I wish we all knew what that was. We all have hits every time — [and then] we don’t.”
He continued, “I don’t know what the audience wants, I just make what I like. I just try to make movies that I want to go see. We’ve done it a number of times. With Bad Boys, Top Gun, and Beverly Hills Cop, it’s part nostalgia and giving them something fresh and new — that’s always the case. They love these characters, they love Will (Smith) and Martin (Lawrence), their adventures and what they go through in their life. What they want, they want the same feeling, but they want something different. I think we’re very fortunate and we gave the audience exactly that.”
Bruckheimer also praised Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s direction in Bad Boys: Ride or Die, saying, “You look at some of those sequences and how they excite you. That whole helicopter sequence and the end of the movie, how they move the camera and work with their DP to create these wonderful sequences, they’re really masters at it.”
Starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, Bad Boys: Ride or Die is now playing in United States theaters.