Men In Black III calls back David Koepp to do extensive script work

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Yup, you can officially throw this one in the “trouble in paradise” category…

As we’ve known for weeks now, there’s massive script problems with Barry Sonnenfeld’s MEN IN BLACK III. In particular, the third act is in shambles…with “vast parts of the script yet unwritten.” At least, that’s what Tommy Lee Jones confessed a couple of weeks ago.

Now, according to Deadline, scribe David Koepp (JURASSIC PARK, PANIC ROOM) has been recruited once again by Sony to do extensive rewrite work on the MIB 3 script. By our count, that’s at least three separate writers who’ve toiled on the script…the first being Etan Cohen (TROPIC THUNDER) and the second being Jeff Nathanson (CATCH ME IF YOU CAN). Never a good sign…

However, since the film is still more than a year away from its targeted release, word is MIB 3 will still come out on May 25th, 2012.

The plot for the new film, which is being directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (helmer of the first two installments), takes the franchise further into whimsical territory. In addition to Smith as Agent J, Tommy Lee Jones reprises his role as the wisecracking Agent K in the present (the part already shot). Josh Brolin, through a time-travel twist, plays a young Agent K from 1969 who encounters countercultural figures such as Andy Warhol and Yoko Ono, according to a person who read a version of the script in November.

Keep close for more on the MIB 3 saga.