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The New MEN IN BLACK Movie Has A Writer...
Merrick here...
A while back he learned that Columbia wanted another MEN IN BLACK movie (details HERE).
Now we know who is writing it:
Studio has tapped "Tropic Thunder" scribe Etan Cohen to pen "Men in Black 3." There are no deals in place for the franchise's stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, though it's unlikely that Col would greenlight the project without the duo's involvement.
...says Variety HERE.
I can't seem to locate the exact interview at the moment but, if memory serves, didn't Will Smith once say he thought there'd be an MIB 3 to (essentially) apologize for the second film (which he correctly felt was a disappointment to fans)? If I'm right, and if anyone can find that statement, please link to it in the Talkbacks below.
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The MIB movies are fun. Even II had it's moments.
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Or maybe Randy Orton's?
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Gimme 3 if - and ONLY IF - you bring back Linda Fiorentino, you bastards...
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The pairing of will Smith & Tommy Lee has to amongst the best ever and although nowhere near as good as the first one, i still enjoyed the second and im well up for a 3rd one
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Oct 30, 2009 10:35:55 AM CDT
make it more serious and less hip
by beyondthunderdome2girls1cupbillcosby
focus more on the scifi and less on the fx and rapping aliens
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That's like a guy who vomits on his girlfriend calling her up the next day asking for another date: "Baby, last night was my bad, let me make it up to you... you don't gotta wear a parka this time." Yikes, live and learn, people!
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I've been hired as a co writer based on my amazing scripts for movies such as Batman 3 and Captain america
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And I was excited by this headline. Thanks for the reality check, YB. Seriously.
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Sadly MJ is dead so he can't reprise his role. And hopefully Tommy Lee Jones will get to say "Awww HELL NAW" this time.
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Oct 30, 2009 10:40:07 AM CDT
I've been hired on too as a preemptive script doctor
by asimovdiedofaids
...based on my awesome work writing the deleted scene in JJ Abram's Star Trek!
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It's only redeeming feature was Robert Downey Jnr's performance. And that was cock-all to do with the writer, so am not looking forward to this at this point.
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I thought there were at least a couple of very good lines in the Tropic Thunder script, unless they were adlibbed. I think the line 'mother nature just shit her pants' is a good one
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Of any franchise, MIB lends itself to changing up the actors - the world/aliens are what makes MIB, not the bland "characters" of Jay/Kay.
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The Rookie Man In Black.
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What did Sonnefeld see in Johnny Knoxville? And as a double-headed alien, so he could be twice as annoying??
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Well, mind isn't the right word. A legend in his own whatever-passes-for-a-mind! Hey, Jett, wtf, man! Do you ever get tired of flogging that motherfucker? I mean, you can drag a horse to water, but you can't reanimate its decaying corpse to make it write every "it" film coming down the pike. Your preeminent "tool" nature sure is wearing thin. Does anyone even find this remotely funny anymore?
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Sorry, but I didn't laugh once throughout the whole terrible film. Even Alan Partridge wasn't funny in it. I will never understand the praise it got, to me it was yet another mass produced type Stiller comedy. The only good films he's been involved on were Mary, Mystery Men and Dodgeball. Everything else he's touched was awful, including Thunder. Thunder's writing means I have no hope whatsoever for a good third MIB.
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***That's like a guy who vomits on his girlfriend calling her up the next day asking for another date:*** That's how I met my woman. Except, she hurled on me.
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Another "lets make good on the sequel we rushed out for cash" sequel...
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Yeah, a woman puking on you is practically good luck in the realm of romance. I remember early on in my current relationship, my girl puked all over the place at a Boston bar on a Friday night. We got thrown out, she puked again on the way back to her place and I held her hand and hair through it all. Men earn HUGE points when a girl is throwing up. It's a fucking blessing, I hope other guys out there understand the good fortune this event can bring.
But if we throw up on them... the double-standard kicks in!!! -
in my love for Tropic Thunder. The only Stiller movie I've enjoyed since Something About Mary.
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as a girl puking all over herself.
That's some story to tell the grandchildren eh? -
Also penned the Mike Judge classic Idiocracy.
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YACKbacker.
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Men In Black films are steaming piles of shit. This is the type of announcement that makes me want to bomb Hollywood and let the film industry start over.
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He's terrible. Not remotely funny. And his wife is too butch for her little body. He thinks he's funny, and she thinks she can play heavy metal. So they're perfect for each other, delusional.
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Oct 30, 2009 11:42:11 AM CDT
A third MIB movie could really try to amp up the whole ...
by royston lodge
... "illegal aliens" angle. Get away from the "evil aliens trying to blow up the universe" idea, and get closer to the premise of the Ameri/Earth powers-that-be trying to manage the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, from overwhelming the planet. Here's how I see a decent MIB movie: There's an intergalactic war "out there", which Earth is not a part of because we ain't at that level of technological or cultural sophistication yet. But this war is creating a whole lot of refugees who are showing up in greater numbers because Sol3 has gained a reputation for being relatively tolerant and accepting of aliens who have nowhere else to go.
Sadly, along with the genuine refugees are criminals, spies, and agents provocateur working on behalf of different factions of the big war.
The big war is never actually seen, and the MIB don't do something lame like end the war by bringing the different sides to share a beer on the patio of the White House.
But the movie could explore a bit about the powers-that-be struggling to figure out what to do when the numbers of refugees starts to overwhelm even the MIB's substantial resources.
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I'm gonna pass that along to my girl tonight. Awesome.
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Oct 30, 2009 11:53:22 AM CDT
Just keep that bloated hack Sonnenfeld far, far away
by menstrual_bloodfart
Let's be honest; he's NEVER made a movie more than serviceable, and most of them have been fucking terrible. And he's a Jew!
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Is an awesome writer. Tropic was great. Idiocracy was great. He also wrote/directed a short film called "I think my wife is retarded" that was hilarious, and won a shit ton of awards. I'm actually really looking forward to this.
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Classy comment dude. Get Shorty was fantastic and the first MiB was very good.
Also- so what if he's a jew? -
No me gusto los gente judía.
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The MIB movies are the #1 example of 'Emperor's New Clothes' Syndrome - the movies are utter shit, but they got praise from somewhere, and instead of the general population saying STF to the praise, en masse they all just went with it, which caused the even worse sequel to be spawned. The first one was tolerable as a 'Well, it should have been a great movie, but it was just kind of sucky and a little OK', but the second one has got to be one of the all time worst turds ever put on film. Seriously, if there were only 2 DVDs left on the planet, and one was Meet Dave and the other was MIB2, I would watch Meet Dave every time. So in one regard, a third MIB movie could not help but be an improvement. And wtf is wrong with you monkeys bagging on Tropic Thunder? That movie is hilarious. And some numb-nuts thinks Mystery Men was a good movie?? Step away from the bong, dude.
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Alpha is who the main bad guy should be. He was the first? agent and allowed the technology to corrupt him, causing him to go rogue.
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i have ever had to sit through. 5 trailers that opened the movie were the only funny part of it. the rest was a self indulgent mess. I could see where stiller was going with it with the whole lets satrise the movie industry thing and the war movie. the cruise cameo was toe curling, cringing and embarrasing. in case peole think i am deviod of a sense of humor I post a list of my top ten fave python sketch. I loved the bbc kenny everett show. as well as capt Kremin. and alan B'stard. and knowing me, knowing you with alan patridge and brass eye. and some eps of the it crowd. and the simpsons witness protection ep which is the best thing they ever did. but back to tropic thunder. it was horrible. and i avoided bruno. but borat was just brilliant. if there was one scene that I hated most in tropic thunder it was the scene where stiller had to do that retarded character for the villagers. by that stage the movie was its own ass anyway. Zoolander is and remains the best thing stiller has ever done."what is this a muesuem for ants, I can they read if they cant even fit inside the building. that scene with wilson and stiller and the computers is hysterical.
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it's called District 9 and it fucking owns the MIB franchise.
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theres something about mary..no way
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for his contributions to Hollywood. I feel your pain JettL. Fight the Power!YACKbacker...very amusing. Mrs. Pillow actually did the same thing hurling in my car..actually down the window. Yup. Pretty sweet.
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but I liked it then. Of course, Winona Ryder at her peak don't hurt. And it's the first thing I recall Steve Zahn appearing in.
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NO ONE!!"
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dodgeball is a very funny film. as is something about mary. I love them all. I saw a film in ireland a very long time ago. stiller made a film for disney in which he starred as an obnoxious git who runs a fit camp for fat children. cant think of the name of the film. but whyte goodman is one of stillers best performances. I also loved meet the parents. meet the fockers was the highest grossing movie in ireland of that year despite being beaten to a pulp by the critics.
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starring paul blart and fiddy.
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Serious. Unless it's a five year old. "Writer" for Men In Black - that's a good one..!
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Oct 30, 2009 12:34:18 PM CDT
Pancho Villa, please revisit the proper conjugation of "gustar"
by shut the fuck up donny
...ANYWAYS
I never got into the MIB franchise, so I'm not really psyched for this. However, I like the majority of Etan Cohen's work, so that may at least earn a rental from me.
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in a lot of ways. used to be funny. then his ego got huge. stopped being funny. I once read of a movie stiller was going to make where he would play himself and some other guy. stiller plays this guy whose a huge fan of ben stiller. he pesters stiller no end untill one day stiller responds and they swap places. I read that and thought stiller had gone mad. then there was the bizare spielberg/mike myers film which never happend in which myers played a whole bunch of different roles. it was cgi. thankfully that movie went down the flusher with myers career.
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I believe the movie you're thinking of it "Heavyweights" co-written by Judd Apatow
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Someone needs to write a romcom about girlfriends and vomiting. I think theres an audience for it.
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a lot. ben stillers to blame for apatows success.
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Such a natural fit. A screaming, drooling overacting Nic Cage can save the franchise.
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in elvis cameo.
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... and Sony got me monees. That first MIB was a class act all the way.
WS: "This definitely rates about a 9.0 on my weird-sh*t-o-meter."
TLJ: "You should've been here for the Zeronian migration in 1968." -
know it. or I think we should mate. what did you say. i said I think we should date. says tiller to his own wife.
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Sorry. Talk about paint-by-numbers.
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That was both the funniest and the dumbest part of the 2nd movie. The glaring problem with the last film was that it stopped taking itself seriously, which caused EVERYONE to overact and no viewer was left serviced emotionally by ANY of the many plots involved in the story. All the fun, coolness, and great promise of the first film was instead delivered in the better-then-it-deserved-to-be animated show, which actaully took itself seriously and rewarded faithful viewers (with the main exception of the VERY OVERUSED Worms, who were given WAAAYYYY to big a role in the series, especially because the ONLY GD thing they did was obsess over coffee for the entire run). As for all the Tropic Thunder hate, I can't expain it. While it wasn't the funniest movie ever, it was a damn hilarious film, and Robert Downey Jr absolutely deserved an oscar nom.
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It was really embarrassing to see Smith and Jones walk around in that weird storyline. Ugh.
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Or make MIB2 a dream. Because that's just how Hollywood rolls. Reimagine the first one to be more like the comic book in which the MIB are evil elitists. That was dark. Make this one dark. Hard R. Needs more blood and cursing. Bruce Campbell and Chris Pine and giant robots. MAN IN SUIT MAN IN SUIT. Zombies. Universal Monsters.
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Granted I haven't seen it in years though
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if so, then this sequel is one step ahead of MIB2. Seriously, Men In Black 2 should thank it's lucky stars for Wild Wild West, one of the ONLY modern films worse than it.
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... aaaand I totally didn't see BatVomit's earlier post, which beat me to the writerless joke. Sorry, dude. Didn't mean to pull a Mencia on you...
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It was a laughless mess. Bloody awful from start to finish. Granted it was kneecapped from the start by Jack (fucking terrible) Black being part of the cast, but it also had RD jnr. Go figure.
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MiB II was better then the first one.
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Just about as bad as Hancock. And the first one doesn't really even hold up that well. No interest in this whatsoever.
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Missed it by THAT much! Yeah, I was stuck with that once, carried her to the car, took her to her place, held the hair, cleaned up (several times, mind you!), gave her Tylenol, helped her to bed, acted like a gentleman and shut the door & slept on the couch and STILL got bumrushed out the next morning when the boyfriend I didn't know about called. Yeah, next time, bitch is on her fuckin' OWN! "Sorry babe, just got the car detailed, ya unnerstand? Good luck!"
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MIB (the first one) was a good movie (and the ride at Universal crushes!)... but the whole plot structure and pacing is lifted completely from GB one!!!!!
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Develop some of the characters and world, Sonnonfeld. It's NOT just about the money... the money will be made. For fuck sakes.
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Tropic Thunder was horrible. And for those who did enjoy it, I don't think this guy could write something worthy of MIB. So part 3 will definitely suck. Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones better say no to this.
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was K's return. After the whole dramatic buildup of him leaving the agency his return was not plausible. That was the biggest weight that brought down the story, along with missing subtle humor from the first one.
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Seems like it.
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Aww fiddle sticks. Still waiting. I know it's coming, it has to. Cause I know in my heart that JettL has got the goods.
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the 2nd one was horrible and the first one wasn't all that
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Jackie, Will, Tommy.
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It was like 40 minutes long and had cheesy effects. Throw in a cast member from a day-time soap and you've got a SyFy tentpole.
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empty, souless voids of nothingness built around a gimmick that thinks it's really big and clever.
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Not even a brother-in-law or something?
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I know good movies. The first MIB was pure crap. It was marketing over moviemaking. You all showed up because you had to show up and you watched fecal matter decay on screen and left with the satisfaction of eating a happy meal. How this is a franchise is a mystery to me. You know who likes MIB movies? Morons who like watching Will Smith yell "booya bitch" and acting what he thinks is "black" in his movies. He's about as convincing as a black actor as Colin Firth. You want to know when he's good? When he plays character like he did in Six Degrees of Seperation. Other than that, it's like watching David Allan Grier try to play black or what he thinks America thinks black guys are. I get so furious knowing a studio wants to continue pumping money into a franchise as awful as this one. No concept. No characters. Just some wham bam whiz bang bullshit wrapped up with Will Smith yelling "Oh, you want more? You want more?". Bleh.
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Seriously, WHAT THE FUCK was that?? MIB II sucked ass.
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You think your in for a sequel? Fools. This is a reboot. With fresh new faces and hipper soundtracks.
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These fucks can't go back on strike soon enough.
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Seriously, what's the big deal? Will Smith is pretty shite too.
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If they make a 3rd it needs to have lots of "hard R" nudity featuring Linda Fiorentino. Yes, I still find her HAWT!
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I think I speak for everyone on here with at least half a sense of good taste when I say ...Amen brother! So fed up with that little shit's self praise. That aside, the thought of the tropic thunder writers getting on board MIB 3 does not sound like a great idea.
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Can't believe it hadn't already been said. Well there you go. Status quo met.
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Will and Tommy are doing their thang until they run across an innercity job and run into a small kid in the dumpsters. Is he alien? Is he human? Oh its will smiths son playing a runaway kid who joins the agency and gives Will a run for his money. Imagine the kid puts on the glasses "I make this look cooler!". Dear god.
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with a family paying for finding a crashed ufo, and the MIB's being the bad guys.
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Brasseye and Jam are the funniest things i have ever seen.When the fuck is his 3 lions movie gonna be finished?
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Just to clear anything up. It would be Jett who will have hands in this. I'm thinking it's just not a good idea. I mean there won't be an agent MJ so sad.
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will any satanic deathmetal chicks fuck me on this night?
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Although "apologizing" for Temple Of Doom is stupid...that movie KICKED ASS. Ocean's 12, however, sucked, and 13 was vastly superior.
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Dammit.
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Oct 30, 2009 10:11:58 PM CDT
The MIB cartoon series was actually pretty damn good
by nasty in the pasty
Like someone said above, it actually took itself fairly seriously for a "kid's show", and it had some imaginative ideas sprinkled around and some good humor. Plus, Elle as a blonde was frigging HOT.
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are a bunch of dopey celebs warning about the dangers of Cake. genius. and how cake can be addictive. and how cake is made.
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I'd like to see this have a reboot and played a little more straight. I kinda liked the concept more than the execution. Way too much comedy in them. The first one was sort of okay, but the second one has to be one of the worst films ever made. Plus, you don't have to have Tommy and Will back and the huge pay cheques that they will demand. Just recast it with some new characters. I'm really not a fan of Will Smith's acting 'work', so I would happily do without him in a new MIB movie. Oh yea, and make damn sure that you get Rick Baker for the FX and don't replace his awesome work with fucking CGI in post production!! And I'd like to see Paul Verhoven direct this :)
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Did anyone notice the plot similarities between MIBII and the sequel to "Romancing the Stone". Good guys and bad guys all searching for an powerful artifact that turns out to be a person.Still, I think if they could have written a more convincing love story, then MIBII might have been more interesting.
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Will Smiff: You want me to hump, fart and piss? Aww hayyill naww!
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The sequel to MIB sucked hard in part because of that one-joke character pug dog getting too much face time. He better not be in the next one AT ALL or I'm calling animal patrol on his stubby ass.
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Just read on MTV.com that Roger Rabbit's original writers are penning a script for Zemeckis, which means sequel. Sequelitis has gripped Hollywood hard. Perhaps it'll prove fatal. Guess that's the good news.
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Oct 31, 2009 9:41:07 AM CDT
OMG. If they REALLY want to throw away millions upon millions of
by scarywaitress
they should just send money to poor kids in Africa or something. Do some GOOD, rather than make this piece of shit.
There is NO reason for this movie to exist. NONE. This is a classic example of producers having NO BALLS and cooking up not-even-mediocre movie shit just to have something to do.
Seriously, this is the multi-million dollar version of looking busy so the boss doesn't fire you. This unnecessary sequel shit has GOT to stop. -
Titanic 2, a second boat is built and promptly sinks when an airliner is shot down by a ufo and crashes into the boat.
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Mib 3????????????????????
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MIB was the 90's Ghostbusters. Very entertaining, massive hit followed by a very bad sequel.
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wtfever. Downey (as usual) was great and Cruise was hilarious. Yeah, Stiller has gotten predictable, but he's not trying to make "Casablanca" or "Citizen Kane" ... he makes silly movies and that's all they should be taken for. Zoolander was fantastically silly fun. Damn, all the holier-than-thou-yet-I-can't-do-better replies (with a healthy dose of JettL) is just reinforcing what Kevin Smith renamed this forum
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Nov 01, 2009 6:53:32 AM CST
whoa, what's with all the hate for Men In Black and Tropic Thund
by the_crimson_king
seriously, what the hell is wrong with you people? anyway MIB2 was mediocre, but having Etan Cohen on board actually makes me very interested in 3
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lets be honest.
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able to get off to 2girls1cup. Hey, where did everyone go?
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The Series being the cartoon that came on The WB. I need to track down all the episodes.
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I. for will smiths record. 2. Mcdonalds or burger King. Smiths contract stipulated that he had to star in the movie and cut the single for the movie as well as do the video. same for MIB2. Will smith was the undoubted star of MIB 2 and he commanded a bigger fee then tommy lee jones. tommy lee jones career has now fizzled out after his bone headed decision to make a comedy about bunch of cheerleaders. nobody will now hire tommy lee jones.
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