Screenwriter David Koepp back to work on MEN IN BLACK III
Sony Pictures has brought screenwriter David Koepp back to work on the script for Men In Black III which is currently in hiatus. Koepp worked on a draft of the script previously written by Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder), so now he's back to a little bit more work on it. The movie is scheduled to go back into production on March 28th.
This next film will be a fun time travel adventure, which is set to take place mostly in the year 1969. Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin and Jemaine Clement will be starring in the film. I'm really hoping this turns out to be a good MIB movie. Barry Sonnenfeld is directing and the film is scheduled to come out on May 25th 2012.
Here are some details on the films story that were previously released:
- Agent Jay was going to be sent back in time to 1969 where he teams up with a young Kay to stop a crazy evil villain named Yaz from destroying the world in the future.
- There’s only one real bad guy in the film, and it’s Yaz, described as a nightmare biker who looks like Dennis Hopper and Satan. This character is played by Flight of the Conchord’s Jemaine Clement. The character is described as oozing badassery and violence out of every pore. It should really be interesting to see Clement take on such a interesting villainous role.
- Agent K in 1969 is supposed to be 26 years old. But isn't Brolin 42? I guess if they can make him look like a college aged George Bush they can make him look like a 26 year old K.
- A new cast of celebrities are revealed as aliens in this era, among these aliens are Yoko Ono, Jimi Hendrix, Castro, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Andy Warhol, who actually has an extended scene where he aids Jay and Kay on their mission.
- There is a scene which describes an Apple Store as a secret time-travel hub, and shaking the iPhone’s clock app as a way to travel into the past... I want that app!
- The general idea is that Yaz travels back in time to kill K, which sets off a chain of events that ends in the destruction of the world.
- There’s a bunch of future-seeing aliens that are central to the plot.