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‘Bad Boys 4’ Directors Adil & Bilall on Will Smith and Martin Lawrence ‘Freestyling’ the Slap Joke, and Their Ideas for a Fifth Movie


‘Bad Boys 4’ directors Adil & Bilall on improvising with Will Smith & Martin Lawrence, deleted scenes and the future of the franchise.

In this fourth installment, Adil & Bilall send Miami PD detectives Mike Lowery (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) on the run, framed for crimes they didn’t commit. What everybody was talking about is obviously the Reggie scene [as Marcus’ stoic son-in-law, played by Dennis McDonald, shows off his combat stills to fend off a troupe of bad guys] — he’s the MVP of the movie. So together with our cinematographer, Robrecht Heyvaert, who’s from Belgium, we were brainstorming and checking out the internet for interesting rigs on social media — on TikTok and Instagram you’ve got cinematography channels — and also video games to try to incorporate that aesthetic.

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