MEN IN BLACK 3-D in Trouble, Shuts Down Production

[AndyDursin]

As if MEN IN BLACK 2 wasn't bad enough, Sony has shut down MEN IN BLACK 3-D in the middle of production so they can bring in David Koepp to re-write the screenplay and in particular a pertinent "flashback" sequence with Josh Brolin playing the younger Tommy Lee Jones.

Can you spell D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R?

Koepp is overrated, and for a film to have to go on hiatus so its script can be re-tooled in the middle of shooting....bad, bad sign!

http://www.deadline.com/2011/03/men-in- ... vid-koepp/

Sony Pictures has brought in David Koepp to do several weeks of work on the script of Men in Black III, the film that took a production hiatus and starts up again March 28. The picture still has to shoot the time travel sequence of a sequel that sends Will Smith's Agent J back to 1969, with Josh Brolin playing a younger version of Tommy Lee Jones' Agent K character, and Alice Eve playing the younger Emma Thompson (she's the head of the Agency). Koepp has been a reliable writer on such Sony tent poles as Spider-Man and Angels & Demons. He's repped by CAA and attorney David Fox. Sony has kept a skeleton staff in place while they work out the bug of the script, but the studio is adamant they had time, they like the footage they've seen, and that director Barry Sonnenfeld will deliver for its May 25, 2012 release date.

[Eric W.]

At this rate I'm hoping the project is dead.

[AndyDursin]

Too big to be dead. They're also way too far into production and have the date locked in (just like STAR TREK)...but it's not good!

Feels like WILD WILD WEST though doesn't it? lol.

[Edmund Kattak]

Pardon me for saying so, but, Alice Eve is hot!

[Eric W.]

Too big to be dead. They're also way too far into production and have the date locked in (just like STAR TREK)...but it's not good!

Feels like WILD WILD WEST though doesn't it? lol.

It does.