Variety:

Sony Pictures is close to greenlighting “Bad Boys For Life," Variety has learned.

Reuniting Will Smith and Martin Lawrence as two of Miami PD’s most infamous officers has taken years to pull off, but a new draft of a script appears to have met with the producers’ approval and it looks as though production on the sequel could begin in early 2019. The plan is for the third “Bad Boys" to be in theaters by Martin Luther King Jr. weekend in 2020. Smith is on board to reprise his role as Detective Mike Lowrey. Lawrence has yet to come to terms, but the comic continues to circle the project.

This is a great time to mention that both Bad Boys films are among my cinematic blind-spots.

I should fix that.