The boys are back in town. After a decade-long development process, the third entry in the Bad Boys franchise is one of those films that needed a trailer to prove its existence was in fact real. After a series of false starts, new directors, and scheduling conflicts, we finally have all the confirmation we need to prove that the film is not only real, but that its stars haven’t lost a beat in the interim. Sony Pictures released the first trailer for the long-awaited Bad Boys for Life, which sees Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return as buddy cop duo Mike Lowery and Marcus Burnett. Legacy sequels like the upcoming Rambo: Last Blood and Terminator: Dark Fate are the current rage, with aging stars promising to make a final stand, but the trailer for Bad Boys for Life exhibits a certain timelessness that proposes this movie could as easily be set in 2009 as 2019, despite its promise of acting as the series’ curtain call.
Bad Boys (1995) launched the film careers of director Michael Bay and Will Smith, while helping Martin Lawrence transition from a leading man on TV to one in movies. It grossed $141.4 million dollars on a $19 million budget. Yes, there was a time when a Michael Bay movie cost under $20 million, believe it or not. Bad Boys II (2003) amped up the budget in spectacular Bay fashion, $130 million, and grossed $273.4 million worldwide, a modest success in years before $1 billion grosses were common. Bad Boys II came right at the time Hollywood was experiencing a shift towards familiar IP, one that Bay would help foster with his Transformers films. As a result, those blockbuster stakes felt like the realm the sequel was playing in, comic book levels of spectacle and narrative that made the first film look small in comparison. Bad Boys II still had the spirit of the buddy cop film, popularized by 48 Hours (1982), Lethal Weapon (1987), and Midnight Run (1988), but Bay made sure it was the biggest buddy cop film ever made. The idea of a third film topping the second, without leaving audiences’ eyeballs running from their sockets, seemed like an impossible challenge.
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