Sony has announced that theMen in Black spin-offis official and it will be released in 2019. The spin-off has reportedly been fast tracked by Sony with a May 17th, 2019 release date set and a script written by Matt Holloway and Art Marcum, the writers behindIron ManandTransformers: The Last Knight. This is huge news for fans of the billion-dollar grossing franchise. Though Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith are not expected to make a return for theMen in Black 4, the story is reportedly set to build off of the work that the famous duo conducted over the course of three installments.
Holloway & Marcum have scripted a contemporary sci-fi movie about the secret black clad force that protects Earth from the alien scum of the universe, which is focusing on new characters (possible with afemale leadthis time) chasing villains that put the picture on more of a global scale than the three previousMen in Black movies. The ambition is similar to the way thatJurassic Worldrebooted and expanded that franchise. TheMen in Blackspin-off will be produced by Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald with Steven Spielberg jumping on to executive produce the project.
The team are currently looking for directors for the spin-off, but no official announcement has been made at the time of this writing. Colin Trevorrow has plenty of free time after getting booted fromStar Wars 9, so Sony might want to hit him up. The director did a great job withJurassic World, so maybe he can work his magic that wasn’t quite magical enough forStar Warson theMen in Blackspin-off. It is officially the time of the spin-off as Lucasfilm and Disney soldier on with theHan Solomovie and Sony gets theVenommovie off of the ground.
It was originally thought that the newest installment forMen in Blackwould be a21 Jump Street mashup, starring Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill’s characters in place of Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith, but that is apparently not the case anymore. Though, theMIB Jump Streetidea is reportedly still in development and could still happen at some point in the future. As previously mentioned, theMen in Blackspin-off is top priority for Sony and has been placed on the fast track for the studio. Producer Walter F. Parkes confirmed the spin-off to Deadline and had this to say.
“It’s so rare to get to the end of the script and know you’re holding a movie in your hands - but Art and Matt have written a spinoff that somehow is true to the core of theMIB world, and yet expands the franchise to a fresh new place.”
So, there you have it. An officialMen in Blackspin-off is currently in the works and has a release date of May 17th, 2019, which is not very far out. This is a developing story, which broke onDeadline, and more news is expected to be announced very soon.
