With Will Smith passing on The City that Sailed, the gears got turning fast for Men in Black 3. And it looks like Barry Sonnenfield is hitting the ground running.
Director Barry Sonnenfield told Showbiz at the Tribeca Film Festival kick-off party that the film is “ready to roll”. It will be in 3D and that both Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones have signed on to return. After Spider-Man 4 fell apart at Sony they are looking for a Memorial Day 2011 film and this is the one. Tropic Thunder co-writer Etan Coen is finishing up the script now.
Word has it that there will be a time travel event that will have Agent J going back in time to meet a younger Agent K, who was said to be played by Josh Brolin.
I kind of like that idea, and while it also means that the “something K sees in this guy Edwards” would have been from his own past, it also means that Tommy Lee Jones wouldn’t have to be in the film much.
But its good to hear that he is still in it, and I look foward to seeing what they do with it.
