A Fifth ‘Males in Black’ Film Is in Improvement

We’ve acquired some out-of-this-world information for Males in Black followers: A brand-new Males in Black film is reportedly in growth at Sony Footage.

Deadline stories Dangerous Boys for Life author Chris Bremner is hooked up to put in writing the fifth installment within the Males in Black collection, which at present consists of the unique trilogy in addition to the mushy reboot movie launched six years in the past.

Sources instructed Deadline no expertise is formally hooked up to the movie simply but, however that Sony hopes unique star Will Smith will finally reprise his position as Agent J after receiving Bremner’s yet-to-be-finished script. The outlet stories “the plan is to have the character again within the first draft” in some capability.

Neither Sony nor Smith’s representatives have commented on the stories as of publishing.

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Bremner penned the third installment within the fashionable Smith-starring Dangerous Boys franchise. Dangerous Boys for Life was launched in 2020 and revitalized the buddy cop motion collection with its highest rated movie thus far. The screenwriter additionally returned to pen the script for 2024’s follow-up, Dangerous Boys: Experience or Die.

As for Males in Black, the favored sci-fi comedy collection at present consists of three movies starring Smith and Tommy Lee Jones — 1997’s Males in Black, 2002’s Males in Black II and 2012’s Males in Black 3 — in addition to the 2019 spinoff/reboot Males in Black: Worldwide starring Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth.

Neither Smith nor Jones appeared within the fourth movie.

Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and based mostly on the Marvel Comics collection The Males in Black, the unique Males in Black film was launched on July 2, 1997. The movie was a smash success on the field workplace, making $589 million in opposition to a $90 million funds.