Former ""The View" co-host Sherri Shepherd has joined the action comedy sequel "Ride Along 2" at Universal Pictures says Deadline. No details regarding her role have been released yet.
Ice Cube and Kevin Hart
are going to reprise their roles as the quick-witted security guard
(Hart) who has his eye on an an Atlanta cop's (Cube) sister. The new
film has Cube and Hart's characters traveling to Miami.
Ken Jeong will play a cocky computer hacker who fancies himself a ladies man but
who also is key in solving the case that Cube and Hart are working on.
The role is being described as similar to Joe Pesci’s scene-stealing third wheel Leo Getz in Lethal Weapon 2.
Benjamin Bratt Glen Powell ("The Expendables 3" "The Dark Knight Rises") and Olivia Munn ("Magic Mike") have been cast in the film
Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi will be back to pen the script for director Tim Story
Shot for just $25 million, the first Ride Along
opened mid-January of 2014 to a record-breaking $41.5 million and
stayed in the top spot for three weeks. It remains as one of the
year's top films having strong staying power and has made a highly
impressive $117 million at home and more than $150 million dollars
worldwide.
Cube, Matt Alvarez, Larry Brezner and Will Packer return to produce.
Production happens this Summer to meet a January 15, 2016 release date.
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