After a decade of development, "Ride Along 3" is starting to renew momentum.
Daniel Gold, who was a writer on the Netflix series "Workin’ Moms", is set to write a new take on the buddy cop story, with Kevin Hart and Ice Cube in talks to return for the Universal project.
Also in talks to return is director Tim Story and producer Will Packer, the latter of whom is releasing the rom-com "You, Me & Tuscany" with the studio this weekend.
Hart and Ice Cube star in the franchise as brothers-in-laws who happen to both work in law enforcement, each with drastically different levels of expertise, who often end up in the middle of Florida’s various crime underworlds.
It has been ten years since the last Ride Along movie hit theaters.
The first Ride Along, out in 2014, grossed over $130 million at the domestic box office, while the second installment earned over $90 million in 2016, making it an overall profitable mid-budget franchise for the studio.
Ice Cube, who was last seen in sci-fi film War of the Worlds and in a cameo role in Sony’s Anaconda.
For his part, Hart was last in theaters with the video game adaptation "Borderlands" and is set to return for the fourth Jumanji movie, due out this December.




