Will Smith and Martin Lawrence Are Back for ‘Bad Boys 4’: Everything to Know
usmagazine.comBad boys for life! Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are returning for the fourth installment of the Bad Boys franchise.The duo starred in the first buddy cop film back in 1995 alongside Téa Leoni and returned to the big screen for the 2003 sequel.Nearly two decades later, Lawrence and Smith reunited for the third flick in the franchise: 2020’s Bad Boys for Life.
The third installment was a box office smash, and speculation of a fourth picture quickly began to spark.“It was big,” Lawrence recalled of the first movie. “For us to come together and prove that we can deliver, and we can pull people into the box office — that two Black stars, two sitcom stars, could make money at the box office — [was huge].
It also was an important pivot for him personally and professionally. I didn’t go to college, so I felt TV was my college years.
I felt with movies, I had graduated; it was just different.”Despite the endearing success of the Bad Boys franchise, the fourth project seemingly lost traction following Smith’s 2022 Oscars incident.
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