Will Smith Back for 'Men In Black 3D'
Wed, April 21, 2010
Yes you read that right. Men In Black 3 is in 3D, surprise! Back in March Will Smth wasn't sure he wanted to do the sequel to MIB, because of another projecting he'd been looking forward to, The City That Sailed. Well according to Director Barry Sonnenfeld, Smith as well as Tommy Lee Jones have both agreed to reprise their roles in the 3D sequel, All they're waiting on is the script.
Showbiz411 reports that Sony is keen on getting production underway as soon as this summer in order to have MIB 3 out for a summer 2011 release, what with Spiderman 4 "falling apart", and not having a blockbuster line up for next Memorial Day in May.
/Film says the biggest surprise was that Jones agreed to come back. There was a rumor floating around about time travel being involved in the possible plot and having agent J travel back and work with a younger version of agent k, Josh Brolin was said to be up for that part. This very well may have been true but with the signing of Jones, maybe they've scrapped the idea, or they had plans to include him in some capacity all along, regardless of the younger "re-cast".
Other casting rumors were that Sasha Baron Cohen and Jemaine Clement have been competing for a role, which was speculated to be that of an "undercover alien", given the previous casting for a certain style of actor, in the previous alien roles.
The first Men In Black released in 1997 made 589 million world wide on a budget of 90 million , and the sequel released in 2002 made 441 million world wide on a budget of 140 million. If they are able to get MIB 3 out for summer 2011 it will have been nearly 10 years since the last film hit theatres, and it will likely come with a nearly 200 million budget, but will the fans still be there?
Reader Comments (1)
The second one kinda sucked, how good can the third possibly get?