{"id":5960,"date":"2009-10-30T06:56:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T11:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=5960"},"modified":"2018-12-09T01:02:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T06:02:15","slug":"men-in-black-iii-gets-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/30\/men-in-black-iii-gets-a-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"MEN IN BLACK III Gets A Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/MenInBlack1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5963\" title=\"You will forget Men In Black II...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/MenInBlack1-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"You will forget Men In Black II...\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a>Tropic Thunder<\/strong> scripter Etan Cohen has been hired by Columbia Pictures to write a third <strong>Men In Black<\/strong> science-fiction comedy.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it&#8230; There&#8217;s not much else to report about the project. Stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones and director Barry Sonnenfeld have not commented as to whether they&#8217;ll be back for this new installment in some capacity or not, but I expect that it&#8217;ll depend on on whether they like what pops out of Cohen&#8217;s computer or not. So long as they bring back the lovely Rosario Dawson&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But has Cohen the goods to deliver a script that is at least better than the disappointing <strong>Men In Black II<\/strong>? <strong>Tropic Thunder <\/strong>was a fairly solid comedy built on a rather good high concept, though he was working with Ben Stiller and Justin Theroux. He has worked with Mike Judge a lot, first on episodes of <em>Beavis &amp; Butthead<\/em> and <em>King Of The Hill<\/em> and then on Judge&#8217;s second feature film <strong>Idiocracy<\/strong>. He also has a couple of projects in development including <strong>Candy Land<\/strong> and a <strong>Sherlock Holmes<\/strong> comedy for Will Farrell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Tropic Thunder scripter Etan Cohen has been hired by Columbia Pictures to write a third Men In Black science-fiction comedy. And that&#8217;s it&#8230; There&#8217;s not much else to report about the project. Stars Will Smith <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/30\/men-in-black-iii-gets-a-writer\/\" title=\"MEN IN BLACK III Gets A Writer\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,84],"tags":[2155,22,2154,24,404,2156],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comicsandfilm","8":"category-news","9":"tag-barry-sonnenfeld","10":"tag-in-development","11":"tag-men-in-black-ii","12":"tag-sequel","13":"tag-tommy-lee-jones","14":"tag-wil-smith"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}