EXCLUSIVE: Following the success of Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Sony Pictures and Martin Lawrence are looking to revive another classic comedy from the comedian.
Sources tell Deadline that a sequel to the 1999 buddy comedy Blue Streak is in development. Cole Maliska is writing the screenplay, and insiders say the film is in early development with no other talent involved.
Lawrence is producing through his production company Run Tel Dat along with Robert Lawrence, Rae Proctor and Stacy Lyles as well as Toby Jaffe and his RDV Films.
Released in 1999, the original Blue Streak starred Lawrence as Miles, a jewel thief who tries to retrieve a diamond he left at a police station, whereupon he disguises himself as a detective and gets paired with a real policeman, played by Luke Wilson, to investigate burglaries.
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