Men In Black III Plot Details Revealed

If you’ve been waiting with bated breath to know just what the third installment of the Men In Black series will be about, good news! NewsInFilm.com got a look at the script (still being revised by screenwriter Etan Cohen) and revealed a few key points in the plot. The biggie comes as no surprise: Will Smith has to save the world. Pattern, much? Ah, but there are several other little nuggets of script info that do have us intrigued.

Read on, unless you’re not a fan of mild spoilers:

The villain, which the studio announced as Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Concords) a while back, is an escaped alien convict named Yaz (or possibly Boris…jury’s still out) with regenerative powers in all his body parts and a longstanding vendetta with Tommy Lee Jones’ Agent Kay.

Yaz/Boris travels back in time to kill Agent Kay, and succeeds. You can imagine the shift this causes in present day reality.

So, Smith’s Agent Jay responds by traveling even further back in time, to before Agent Kay’s murder… the year 1969 specifically, where he encounters the young Kay (Josh Brolin) and a series of apparently-comedic moments born of his being black in the Civil Rights era.

Throughout Jay’s attempt to rescue Kay, we get plenty of that pithy Smith/Jones dialogue we loved in previous MIB movies and, of course, more revelations about real-life celebrities who are actually aliens, like Jimi Hendrix, Kareem Abdul-Jabar and other humans with super-human talent levels.

Men In Black III is set for a 2012 release with direction from Barry Sonnenfeld, who’s been with the trilogy since Smith and Jones first donned their Ray-Bans in 1997.

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