The final trailer for Bad Boys: Ride or Die has arrived. Four years after the hit action-comedy franchise was revived with Bad Boys for Life, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are returning for a new adventure that sees their characters on the run after their late captain is accused of being corrupt. The previous movie was a box office hit in 2020 as one of the few movies to score a regular release ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the upcoming Bad Boys sequel will arrive in early June in the hopes of pulling off a successful summer run.

With only a few weeks to go before Bad Boys: Ride or Die arrives in theaters, Sony Pictures Entertainment has unveiled the final trailer. Check it out below:

The trailer gets right into the heart of the new story, which finds Mike Lowery (Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Lawrence) reeling from the revelation that their former captain, Conrad Howard (Joe Pantoliano), was supposedly corrupt. However, a posthumous video message from Howard suggests that the actual corruption goes deeper within the Miami Police Department, and that someone from within had him killed.

Will Bad Boys: Ride Or Die Be A Hit?

The Bad Boys Sequel's New Trailer Showcases Its Possible Appeal

This new Bad Boys: Ride or Die trailer precedes a release that has very big shoes to fill. So far, each of the movies in the franchise has grossed more than the previous installment despite the fact that the shortest hiatus between those entries was eight years. If the new movie hopes to continue that trend, it will have to earn well over $400 million worldwide by the end of its theatrical run. Below, see the total grosses for all three previous Bad Boys movies, both raw and adjusted for inflation:

While this presents the sequel with a tough challenge, this trailer reveals the most important way that it can succeed. Although Bad Boys for Life seemed to be prepping a new team to whom Lawrence and Smith could pass the torch, the stars are clearly still front and center in the Bad Boys: Ride or Die cast. This keeps the movie firmly planted in the legacy sequel mode that helped the third installment in the franchise become such a success even with encroaching theater closures.

On top of those returning stars, Bad Boys: Ride or Die features even more connections to previous entries in the franchise. In addition to the plot centering around franchise stalwart Joe Pantoliano, it also features the return of John Salley as Fletcher, who did not appear in For Life, though he had a cameo in the television spinoff L.A.'s Finest. With so many connections to franchise entries past, the movie is even more invested in the character dynamics that helped forge the original hits.

Source: Sony Pictures Entertainment

Bad Boys: Ride or Die

Action

Adventure

Comedy

Bad Boys 4 is the tentative title of the fourth installment in the action-comedy film series starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. The series centers on hard-boiled Miami detectives Mike Lowery and Marcus Burnett, who take on dangerous drug kingpins and thwart dangerous schemes as they attempt to stop the circulation of illicit drugs in their city.

Director

Adil El Arbi , Bilall Fallah

Release Date

June 7, 2024

Studio(s)

Columbia Pictures , 2.0 Entertainment , Don Simpson Films , Jerry Bruckheimer Films , Westbrook Studios

Distributor(s)

Sony Pictures Releasing

Writers

Chris Bremner

Cast

Will Smith , Martin Lawrence , Vanessa Hudgens , Alexander Ludwig , Paola Núñez , Eric Dane , Ioan Gruffudd , Tasha Smith

Franchise(s)

Bad Boys

prequel(s)

Bad Boys (1995) , Bad Boys 2 , Bad Boys for Life

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