21 Jump Street directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord have revealed a few more details of the Men in Black crossover film they were developing that was "very close to happening."

Miller and Lord were guests Happy Sad Confused and host Joshua Horowitz asked the directors about this 21 Jump Street/Men in Black crossover that seemed to be picking up a ton of steam in the 2010s.

Still mourning the insane MEN IN BLACK/21 JUMP STREET film we could have had…@philiplord @chrizmillr pic.twitter.com/nzT9Ue3gq5

— Josh Horowitz (@joshuahorowitz) February 5, 2022

"There was a… believe it or not… a Men in Black and 21 Jump Street crossover script that was very funny and very crazy that we really adored," Miller began.

"One of my favorite ideas is that the Men in Black… Like the black suits were like martial arts belts that you had to work your way up to black and that [Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum] were issued powder blue Men in Black suits," Lord added.

"It was basically the idea was that Jonah and Channing… a thing happened while they were doing their medical school adventure that got them embroiled into the world of Men in Black and they ended up teaming up to stop an alien takeover type of thing," Miller said. "So, it was very funny, it was very crazy, trying to sort of like manage these two franchises and not drive them both into the ground seemed like a real challenge."

Unfortunately, the movie never crossed the finish line, although Miller and Lord shared that it "came very close to happening."

This project, which was known as MIB 23, was at one time going to potentially be directed by The Muppets' James Bobin. While there was a lot of hope for the film, producer Walter Parkes admitted defeat in 2019, saying, "we gave it a shot. It turned out to be an impossible match-up."

Instead of MIB 23, the world was given Men in Black: International in 2019 with Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson. In our review, we said, "That lack of tension pervades the entirety of International. It feels like Men In Black by numbers, a trudge from one set-piece to the next untidily glued together by weak gags and sharp suits, never getting us to care about its characters or the world-changing stakes."

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21 Jump Street directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord have revealed a few more details of the Men in Black crossover film they were developing that was "very close to happening."

Miller and Lord were guests Happy Sad Confused and host Joshua Horowitz asked the directors about this 21 Jump Street/Men in Black crossover that seemed to be picking up a ton of steam in the 2010s.

Still mourning the insane MEN IN BLACK/21 JUMP STREET film we could have had…@philiplord @chrizmillr pic.twitter.com/nzT9Ue3gq5

— Josh Horowitz (@joshuahorowitz) February 5, 2022

"There was a… believe it or not… a Men in Black and 21 Jump Street crossover script that was very funny and very crazy that we really adored," Miller began.

"One of my favorite ideas is that the Men in Black… Like the black suits were like martial arts belts that you had to work your way up to black and that [Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum] were issued powder blue Men in Black suits," Lord added.

"It was basically the idea was that Jonah and Channing… a thing happened while they were doing their medical school adventure that got them embroiled into the world of Men in Black and they ended up teaming up to stop an alien takeover type of thing," Miller said. "So, it was very funny, it was very crazy, trying to sort of like manage these two franchises and not drive them both into the ground seemed like a real challenge."

Unfortunately, the movie never crossed the finish line, although Miller and Lord shared that it "came very close to happening."

This project, which was known as MIB 23, was at one time going to potentially be directed by The Muppets' James Bobin. While there was a lot of hope for the film, producer Walter Parkes admitted defeat in 2019, saying, "we gave it a shot. It turned out to be an impossible match-up."

Instead of MIB 23, the world was given Men in Black: International in 2019 with Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson. In our review, we said, "That lack of tension pervades the entirety of International. It feels like Men In Black by numbers, a trudge from one set-piece to the next untidily glued together by weak gags and sharp suits, never getting us to care about its characters or the world-changing stakes."

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Spider-Man: No Way Home's first streaming service has been confirmed, and it's not Netflix or Disney+. Instead, it has been revealed that the multiverse adventure will swing its way to Starz "sometime over the next six months."

In an interview with Deadline, Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch was asked about the streaming platform's "role of movies versus series." While films seem to provide a big jump in viewers when they arrive on the service, they fade much quicker than TV shows do.

“Ours is a retention game, not an acquisition game,” he said. “Lining up content week to week, 52 weeks a year. Seeking to move our core audience from one show to the next.”

He continued by saying that while viewers did tend to visit Starz for the original series, the service has much more movies than it does shows. Considering that fact, Hirsch hopes films like Spider-Man: No Way Home - which will arrive on Starz "sometime over the next six months" - will invite people into Starz's home and that the original content will make them stay.

“You put the right shows and content around it so you can move customers that watch Spider-Man into one of your originals," Hirsch said.

Many have been hoping that Spider-Man: No Way Home would come to Netflix and Disney+ in the near future, especially after the deals Sony made with the streaming giants. However, their deals only covered Sony's films from 2022-2026. No Way Home, on the other hand, was released in 2021.

We know future Spider-Man films will arrive on Netflix first and then Disney+, but it is still unclear as to whether Spider-Man: No Way Home - or any of the other previous Spider-Man films for that matter - will make it to those platforms.

Jared Leto's Morbius looks to be the first film that will fall under this new deal, but it was recently delayed to April 1, 2022.

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Spider-Man: No Way Home's first streaming service has been confirmed, and it's not Netflix or Disney+. Instead, it has been revealed that the multiverse adventure will swing its way to Starz "sometime over the next six months."

In an interview with Deadline, Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch was asked about the streaming platform's "role of movies versus series." While films seem to provide a big jump in viewers when they arrive on the service, they fade much quicker than TV shows do.

“Ours is a retention game, not an acquisition game,” he said. “Lining up content week to week, 52 weeks a year. Seeking to move our core audience from one show to the next.”

He continued by saying that while viewers did tend to visit Starz for the original series, the service has much more movies than it does shows. Considering that fact, Hirsch hopes films like Spider-Man: No Way Home - which will arrive on Starz "sometime over the next six months" - will invite people into Starz's home and that the original content will make them stay.

“You put the right shows and content around it so you can move customers that watch Spider-Man into one of your originals," Hirsch said.

Many have been hoping that Spider-Man: No Way Home would come to Netflix and Disney+ in the near future, especially after the deals Sony made with the streaming giants. However, their deals only covered Sony's films from 2022-2026. No Way Home, on the other hand, was released in 2021.

We know future Spider-Man films will arrive on Netflix first and then Disney+, but it is still unclear as to whether Spider-Man: No Way Home - or any of the other previous Spider-Man films for that matter - will make it to those platforms.

Jared Leto's Morbius looks to be the first film that will fall under this new deal, but it was recently delayed to April 1, 2022.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Spider-Man: No Way Home's first streaming service has been confirmed, and it's not Netflix or Disney+. Instead, it has been revealed that the multiverse adventure will swing its way to Starz "sometime over the next six months."

In an interview with Deadline, Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch was asked about the streaming platform's "role of movies versus series." While films seem to provide a big jump in viewers when they arrive on the service, they fade much quicker than TV shows do.

“Ours is a retention game, not an acquisition game,” he said. “Lining up content week to week, 52 weeks a year. Seeking to move our core audience from one show to the next.”

He continued by saying that while viewers did tend to visit Starz for the original series, the service has much more movies than it does shows. Considering that fact, Hirsch hopes films like Spider-Man: No Way Home - which will arrive on Starz "sometime over the next six months" - will invite people into Starz's home and that the original content will make them stay.

“You put the right shows and content around it so you can move customers that watch Spider-Man into one of your originals," Hirsch said.

Many have been hoping that Spider-Man: No Way Home would come to Netflix and Disney+ in the near future, especially after the deals Sony made with the streaming giants. However, their deals only covered Sony's films from 2022-2026. No Way Home, on the other hand, was released in 2021.

We know future Spider-Man films will arrive on Netflix first and then Disney+, but it is still unclear as to whether Spider-Man: No Way Home - or any of the other previous Spider-Man films for that matter - will make it to those platforms.

Jared Leto's Morbius looks to be the first film that will fall under this new deal, but it was recently delayed to April 1, 2022.

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Spider-Man: No Way Home's first streaming service has been confirmed, and it's not Netflix or Disney+. Instead, it has been revealed that the multiverse adventure will swing its way to Starz "sometime over the next six months."

In an interview with Deadline, Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch was asked about the streaming platform's "role of movies versus series." While films seem to provide a big jump in viewers when they arrive on the service, they fade much quicker than TV shows do.

“Ours is a retention game, not an acquisition game,” he said. “Lining up content week to week, 52 weeks a year. Seeking to move our core audience from one show to the next.”

He continued by saying that while viewers did tend to visit Starz for the original series, the service has much more movies than it does shows. Considering that fact, Hirsch hopes films like Spider-Man: No Way Home - which will arrive on Starz "sometime over the next six months" - will invite people into Starz's home and that the original content will make them stay.

“You put the right shows and content around it so you can move customers that watch Spider-Man into one of your originals," Hirsch said.

Many have been hoping that Spider-Man: No Way Home would come to Netflix and Disney+ in the near future, especially after the deals Sony made with the streaming giants. However, their deals only covered Sony's films from 2022-2026. No Way Home, on the other hand, was released in 2021.

We know future Spider-Man films will arrive on Netflix first and then Disney+, but it is still unclear as to whether Spider-Man: No Way Home - or any of the other previous Spider-Man films for that matter - will make it to those platforms.

Jared Leto's Morbius looks to be the first film that will fall under this new deal, but it was recently delayed to April 1, 2022.

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Spider-Man: No Way Home's first streaming service has been confirmed, and it's not Netflix or Disney+. Instead, it has been revealed that the multiverse adventure will swing its way to Starz "sometime over the next six months."

In an interview with Deadline, Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch was asked about the streaming platform's "role of movies versus series." While films seem to provide a big jump in viewers when they arrive on the service, they fade much quicker than TV shows do.

“Ours is a retention game, not an acquisition game,” he said. “Lining up content week to week, 52 weeks a year. Seeking to move our core audience from one show to the next.”

He continued by saying that while viewers did tend to visit Starz for the original series, the service has much more movies than it does shows. Considering that fact, Hirsch hopes films like Spider-Man: No Way Home - which will arrive on Starz "sometime over the next six months" - will invite people into Starz's home and that the original content will make them stay.

“You put the right shows and content around it so you can move customers that watch Spider-Man into one of your originals," Hirsch said.

Many have been hoping that Spider-Man: No Way Home would come to Netflix and Disney+ in the near future, especially after the deals Sony made with the streaming giants. However, their deals only covered Sony's films from 2022-2026. No Way Home, on the other hand, was released in 2021.

We know future Spider-Man films will arrive on Netflix first and then Disney+, but it is still unclear as to whether Spider-Man: No Way Home - or any of the other previous Spider-Man films for that matter - will make it to those platforms.

Jared Leto's Morbius looks to be the first film that will fall under this new deal, but it was recently delayed to April 1, 2022.

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Elden Ring's director Hidetaka Miyazaki and multiple PlayStation Studios developers have revealed their personal favorite bosses from the Dark Souls series, Demon's Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.

While Miyazaki had previously shared that the Old Monk boss from Demon's Souls was his favorite, he discussed a bit more as to why he made that choice with PlayStation.Blog.

“If we’re talking about a boss that I’m ‘most proud of’ (to use those specific words), it would probably be the Old Monk from Demon’s Souls," Miyazaki said. "The reason being is there was a lot of pushback against that design and what we were trying to do with it. But it was something I really, really wanted to do. I wanted to get that boss concept into the game, both from a visual design perspective and gameplay perspective, including the multiplayer element.

"From both the implementation and fun factor, we got a lot of pushback, and no one believed in it at the time. But in the end, we came through, and I think it turned into an intriguing boss that the fans appreciated. With Demon’s Souls, there were a lot of mechanics throughout the development that were difficult to design. For instance, the asynchronous online features were complicated, but I think the Old Monk encompasses those tribulations and how we pushed through and made something we were proud of.”

Insomniac Games' associate community manager Thomas Hart also chose the Old Monk, saying that the revelation that he wasn't simply fighting an A.I. but an actual player was a "mind blown" moment.

You can check out all the other bosses that made the list and the developers' reasoning behind their choices in the slideshow above, including Great Grey Wolf Sif, Dragonslayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough, and Knight Artorias.

For more, check out our look at the 10 Best Dark Souls Bosses According to Fans, our hands-on preview of Elden Ring's closed network test, and why Miyazaki thinks that more players will finish this new game despite it not being easier.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Elden Ring's director Hidetaka Miyazaki and multiple PlayStation Studios developers have revealed their personal favorite bosses from the Dark Souls series, Demon's Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.

While Miyazaki had previously shared that the Old Monk boss from Demon's Souls was his favorite, he discussed a bit more as to why he made that choice with PlayStation.Blog.

“If we’re talking about a boss that I’m ‘most proud of’ (to use those specific words), it would probably be the Old Monk from Demon’s Souls," Miyazaki said. "The reason being is there was a lot of pushback against that design and what we were trying to do with it. But it was something I really, really wanted to do. I wanted to get that boss concept into the game, both from a visual design perspective and gameplay perspective, including the multiplayer element.

"From both the implementation and fun factor, we got a lot of pushback, and no one believed in it at the time. But in the end, we came through, and I think it turned into an intriguing boss that the fans appreciated. With Demon’s Souls, there were a lot of mechanics throughout the development that were difficult to design. For instance, the asynchronous online features were complicated, but I think the Old Monk encompasses those tribulations and how we pushed through and made something we were proud of.”

Insomniac Games' associate community manager Thomas Hart also chose the Old Monk, saying that the revelation that he wasn't simply fighting an A.I. but an actual player was a "mind blown" moment.

You can check out all the other bosses that made the list and the developers' reasoning behind their choices in the slideshow above, including Great Grey Wolf Sif, Dragonslayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough, and Knight Artorias.

For more, check out our look at the 10 Best Dark Souls Bosses According to Fans, our hands-on preview of Elden Ring's closed network test, and why Miyazaki thinks that more players will finish this new game despite it not being easier.

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Elden Ring's director Hidetaka Miyazaki and multiple PlayStation Studios developers have revealed their personal favorite bosses from the Dark Souls series, Demon's Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.

While Miyazaki had previously shared that the Old Monk boss from Demon's Souls was his favorite, he discussed a bit more as to why he made that choice with PlayStation.Blog.

“If we’re talking about a boss that I’m ‘most proud of’ (to use those specific words), it would probably be the Old Monk from Demon’s Souls," Miyazaki said. "The reason being is there was a lot of pushback against that design and what we were trying to do with it. But it was something I really, really wanted to do. I wanted to get that boss concept into the game, both from a visual design perspective and gameplay perspective, including the multiplayer element.

"From both the implementation and fun factor, we got a lot of pushback, and no one believed in it at the time. But in the end, we came through, and I think it turned into an intriguing boss that the fans appreciated. With Demon’s Souls, there were a lot of mechanics throughout the development that were difficult to design. For instance, the asynchronous online features were complicated, but I think the Old Monk encompasses those tribulations and how we pushed through and made something we were proud of.”

Insomniac Games' associate community manager Thomas Hart also chose the Old Monk, saying that the revelation that he wasn't simply fighting an A.I. but an actual player was a "mind blown" moment.

You can check out all the other bosses that made the list and the developers' reasoning behind their choices in the slideshow above, including Great Grey Wolf Sif, Dragonslayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough, and Knight Artorias.

For more, check out our look at the 10 Best Dark Souls Bosses According to Fans, our hands-on preview of Elden Ring's closed network test, and why Miyazaki thinks that more players will finish this new game despite it not being easier.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.