doing the same thing over and over again is as boring to do as it’s boring to watch.” I love doing it, but it really is exciting after ‘Moneyball’ to have that taste for something different. Hanson gets assigned to the Jump Street unit, a special division of the police force which uses young cops to go undercover and stop juvenile crime, when his youthful appearance causes him to be underestimated while on patrol. Cannell (The A-Team, The Rockford Files, 21 Jump Street, Wiseguy), the show ran from September 1984 to August 1991 and initially focused on Hunter, a tough. “It’s just not as inspiring to me anymore as an artist. “The past 10 years, I’ve made a lot of comedy films,” he told Reuters at the South by Southwest film festival where “21 Jump Street” premiered last week ahead of its U.S. In fact, he’s already hard at work on one new drama.
REUTERS/Mario AnzuoniĮven as his new “21 Jump Street,” based on a 1980s TV drama but turned into a comedy for the movies, hits theaters on Friday, Hill said he has grown bored with always being the sidekick in funny films like “Superbad” that made him a star.Īt age 28, a slimmed-down Hill said his role as a numbers-crunching Yale grad in baseball drama “Moneyball” has blown “the door wide open” for new opportunities and better roles. These ‘ 80s kids got pressures and problems and all sorts of worries, including the two creeps who earlier slammed into the suburban domicile.Cast member Jonah Hill poses at the premiere of "21 Jump Street" at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California March 13, 2012. Like, man, who needs it.īut against his initial impulse, Hanson joins a batch of youthful-looking undercover cops (played by Holly Robinson, Peter DeLuise, Dustin Nguyen) and heads back to school, there to find puberty and its attendant elements more than malts, sock hops and the math club. Lockers, English class (diagramming parts of a sentence), study hall, detention, adolescent angst. Heading the back-to-back-high-school undercover brigade is Captain Jenko (Frederic Forrest), a survivor of the “Love Generation” (he wears a leather jacket with Jim Morrison stenciled on the back and has Hendrix posters up in his office), who now believes today’s youth’s got bad, and that ain’t good.įor Hanson, the thought of returning to the past - re-enlisting in high school - is something that doesn’t sit so easy. Though Hanson is following in Pa’s footsteps, he has been having a tough time making criminals believe he’s armed and dangerous, his youthful countenance undercutting his real age.Īs a way of better protecting and serving, Hanson is asked to join a group of officers who re-enroll in high school as a way of combating crime among the pre-college-age set.
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21 JUMP STREET TV SHOW FULL
Meet bright-eyed and bushy haired rookie Tommy Hanson (Johnny Depp), whose dad was a cop killed in the line of duty. The Official 21 JUMP STREET Channel, offering full episodes of the nostalgic hit TV series starring the acclaimed Johnny Depp. Yet after watching 21‘s two-hour debut, one has the feeling of revisiting a hot-wired David Cassidy TV broadcast from TV’s past, in which the former Partridge family kin played a clandestine peace officer plopped into a local high school.Īfter a surreal start, in which two thugs shotgun their way into a suburban home, demanding that the son pay back the scratch he owes, we get to the raison d’etre of 21.
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