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From ComingSoon.net ...

Men in Black Spin-Off Gets Writers, Release Date!
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According to Deadline, Sony Pictures is in development on
a new Men in Black spin-off which will not feature Will
Smith or Tommy Lee Jones, but will expand on the world of
the original trilogy. This will be a different project
from the aborted 21 Jump Street franchise mashup, MIB 23,
which Jonah Hill admitted last year was "too complicated"
in terms of the deals needed. That film remains in
development, however.

The new untitled Men in Black film has been written by
Matt Holloway & Art Marcum (Iron Man, Transformers: The
Last Knight), with Sony setting aside a May 17, 2019
release date slot. That date positions it against another
big sequel, Keanu Reeves' John Wick: Chapter Three. Series
producers Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald and
executive producer Steven Spielberg will shepherd the
film, which is currently out to top directors. The scope
of the film is said to be more global than the previous
three, with Jurassic World being a comparison point of
rebooting while remaining in the world of the other movies.

"It's so rare to get to the end of the script and know
you're holding a movie in your hands," said Parks. "Art and
Matt have written a spinoff that somehow is true to the
core of the MIB world, and yet expands the franchise to a
fresh new place."

The original Men in Black, starring the winning combo of
Smith and Jones, came out twenty years ago in the summer of
1997, and grossed $589 million worldwide. Its 2002 sequel,
Men in Black II, grossed $441 million worldwide and was
less enthusiastically received by critics and audiences
alike, while the 2012 threequel MIB 3 took the series back
on course creatively and earned $642 million worldwide,
despite a troubled filming process. Barry Sonnenfeld
directed all three original pictures.


RELATED: MIB 23 Unlikely to Happen, Says Jonah Hill <http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/756383-mib-23-unlikely-to-happen-says-jonah-hill>




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