Hollywood was simply never going to just let something like Men In Black stay tucked away on the high shelf forever.
There are thousands of potential stories to be told in the alien-filled world, and it’s a brand name that every movie-goer recognizes.
There has been a lot of anticipation for the next film in the Men In Black series for a while now, and a lot of that stems from the fact that it’s a project that has long felt inevitable.
Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men In Black 3 may have wrapped up the trilogy starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, but what was still left on the table after the 2012 blockbuster was the franchise-equivalent of a playground.