'21 Jump Street' Leaps To Big Screen

[Monday, November 25th, 2002]
Paramount Pictures will give big screen treatment for "21 Jump Street," reports Variety.

The series launched the career of Johnny Depp and helped establish Rupert Murdoch's then-fledgling Fox network as a youth-demo stronghold.

The film will be written by the series' co-creators, Stephen J. Cannell and Patrick Hasburgh, in a deal potentially worth seven figures if it goes into production.

The series, which ran from 1987-1990 on Fox and one subsequent season in syndication, has an easily updateable premise for a film that should have strong youth appeal. A group of fresh-faced police officers are assigned the nightmarish undercover duty of returning to high school to crack crimes and bust drug dealers infiltrating the hallways. The narcs were played by Depp, Peter DeLuise, Holly Robinson Peete, Dustin Nguyen and Richard Grieco.

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