Sony is hoping to extend its Men in Black franchise with a script worth remembering.

Chris Bremner has been hired to pen the screenplay for a new feature in the sci-fi series, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The studio has yet to attach a director or any castmembers.

Adapting Lowell Cunningham’s Marvel Comics series, director Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1997 film Men in Black starred Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones . The hit movie launched a franchise that saw Smith and Jones return for 2002’s Men in Black II and 2012’s Men in Black 3 .

The property was rebooted in 2019 with Men in Black: International , starring Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson. Neither Smith nor Jones appeared in this feature.

Deadline was first to report on the new film.

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