{"id":29816,"date":"2015-09-25T15:30:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T22:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=29816"},"modified":"2019-03-06T16:54:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T00:54:07","slug":"men-in-black-reboot-no-will-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/men-in-black-reboot-no-will-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Planning to Reboot Men in Black with a New Trilogy and Without Will Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The last Men in Black<\/strong><\/em><\/a> movie was in 2012 but, according to Sony, that’s enough time to start working on a reboot. Without Will Smith.<\/p>\n

Granted, when Smith was asked about a fourth film<\/a>, he responded with: “Three is enough for me.” So he’s probably cool with the reboot being done without him.<\/p>\n

During the Sony leaks, there was talk of a Men in Black<\/em> and 21 Jump Street<\/em><\/a> crossover (CAN YOU IMAGINE) but it never went anywhere.<\/p>\n

The former alone, however, is<\/em> going somewhere.<\/p>\n

In speaking with The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>,<\/em> producers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald<\/strong> sounded positive about reviving Men in Black.<\/em> Specifically, they said the franchise is “very active” and they’re in the middle of working on it at Sony.<\/p>\n

When asked about Smith’s involvement, their answer was even simpler: “Most likely no.”<\/p>\n

They then they go on to confirm it will be another trilogy.<\/p>\n

The franchise, based on a comic book by Lowell Cunningham, followed a secret organization that monitored extraterrestrial life on Earth. The main characters were Agents Kay (Tommy Lee Jones) and Jay (Will Smith).<\/p>\n

Are you excited to see more Men in Black?<\/em> Who would you want to see lead the film and would you want entirely new characters? Sound off in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The last Men in Black movie was in 2012 but, according to Sony, that’s enough time to start working on a reboot. Without Will Smith. Granted, when Smith was asked about a fourth film, he responded with: “Three is enough for me.” So he’s probably cool with the reboot being done without him. During […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108],"tags":[3145,112,3348,1979],"yst_prominent_words":[8617,5891,6475,6413,14901,6807,25896,8559,6116,12607,6208,25550],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29816"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64588,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29816\/revisions\/64588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29816"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=29816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}