EXCLUSIVE: Ioan Gruffudd (San Andreas) has closed a deal to join Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys 4, the newest installment in the hit series of buddy cop action comedies from Sony Pictures.
Details as to the plot of the film are under wraps, though the past three have followed the investigations of Miami PD Detectives Marcus Burnett (Lawrence) and Mike Lowrey (Smith), netting over $841M worldwide in total, with each installment topping the gross of the last.
Sources tell Deadline that Gruffudd will play Lockwood, a high-profile attorney running for election. Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah have returned to direct, after helming third chapter Bad Boys: For Life, and are working from a script by Chris Bremner.
Others returning from Bad Boys: For Life, as previously announced, include actors Paola Núnez, Vanessa Hudgens and Alexander Ludwig.
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