Men in Black 3- Prodduction delayed

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Men in Black 3- Production delayed

Poor Men in Black III just can’t catch a break. The Sony production has been hit with a delay according to the Los Angeles Times. You might be asking yourself, what happened? The shoot had already begun last year and we saw our fair share of paparazzi photos from the set. It turns out that MIB3 has been on a nearly two month hiatus, which was supposed to end in February. Unfortunately, it’s been pushed back to March 28.

The cause of the delay is said to be script issues. You got it! Old fashioned script issues are keeping the actors and crew from continuing on with the shoot. Supposedly the production was broken into two phases: “the first part, set in the present, would begin in November and wrap before the holidays (it in fact did that), but the second part, set in 1969, would not begin shooting until mid-February.” The latter portion obviously didn’t happen.
EW reports that “Sony agreed to give director Barry Sonnenfeld more time to prep the last act of the film after viewing a promising cut of the first act, which was completed before the holidays.” Multiple writers have come on board to do rewrites on the film’s script including Jeff Nathanson and Etan Cohen, but those changes won’t have any effect on the release date.
Men in Black III is still scheduled to hit theaters on Memorial Day 2012.
What do you think of Men in Black’s production delays? Is it a good sign?

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I am actually looking forward to men in black 3. I quite enjoyed number One and two, to be honest :p

 

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I am actually looking forward to men in black 3. I quite enjoyed number One and two, to be honest :p

They were silly and fun, exactly what they were meant to be

 

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I hope it gets back on track. I really like the first two. I love funny and silly sci-fi.

 

[Overmind One]

I thought it was great! It didnt take itself so seriously.

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I am actually looking forward to men in black 3. I quite enjoyed number One and two, to be honest :p

They were silly and fun, exactly what they were meant to be

I hope it gets back on track. I really like the first two. I love funny and silly sci-fi.

Men in Black III should be a hoot. They didnt take themselves so seriously, and thats the appeal of it IMO. I hope it gets back on track soon!

 

[heisenberg]

David Koepp Now Rewriting ‘Men in Black III

The production schedule for Men in Black III has been a strange thing. A lot of footage was shot for the film last year, then a built-in production break kicked in at Christmas. Originally Sony was going to get the movie back into gear last month, but creative problems pushed the new resume date back to March 28. Jeff Nathanson was hammering out issues with the script along with director Barry Sonnenfeld and others. Now David Koepp (Spider-Man, War of the Worlds, Indy IV) has been brought in to finish the job.

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Deadline reports the news. Specifically, what David Koepp is working on is the time-travel portion of the story that is set in 1969, when Will Smith‘s Agent J encounters a young version of Tommy Lee Jones‘ character Agent K, played by Josh Brolin. There was a point last year when it sounded like there would be some pretty jokey stuff in that segment — encounters with era-appropriate celebs like Yoko Ono and so forth.
But this part of the film has proved to be problematic, for some reason, and now that much extra time and a new writer are being devoted to the ’69 segments, I wonder how different the final thing might be from what was rumored last year. We still don’t know a lot about the movie overall. Emma Thompson plays the new head of the MiB organization; Alice Eve is the 1969 version of the same character, and Sharlto Copley, Alec Baldwin, Jemaine Clement all have roles. Beyond that, Sony has done a good job of keeping this one under wraps.
The 3D film is scheduled for May 25, 2012 and Sony insists that everything is fine and it will meet that date.

I certainly hope so...


http://www.slashfilm.com/david-koepp-rewriting-men-black-iii/

 

[heisenberg]

Is Men In Black 3 halfway through filming without a script?

Reports from the Men In Black 3 set all seem to indicate one thing, this new time-traveling prequel/sequel is in trouble. The picture started shooting without a script in place, and now seems to be on permanent hiatus. What's happening? Spoilers ahead...
According to THR, Sony started filming the third picture in the MIB trilogy last November. This particular addition to the MIB franchise is believed to take place in two different time periods (present day and back in the 1960s with a younger version of agent J Tommy Lee Jones played by Josh Brolin)
Worried that the NYC's filming tax breaks would get canceled at the end of 2010, the production started in November shooting the only part they had done, some of the present-day NYC shtick. After a short two months of filming, the studio put the whole crew on hiatus so the screenwriters could finish the script for the 1960s sequences.
But now that hiatus has been extended all the way until March 28th, and writer David Koepp has been hired to "work out complex script issues involving time travel." Allegedly the delay is costing everyone millions, and the hiatus could kill the casts momentum for the project, but the studio protests that the NYC tax breaks (which did NOT vanish in the year 2011) will offset all over-spending.
So why the hold up? No one is certain. THR blames Will Smith's script approval contract:

"He's become very enamored with aspects of screenwriting," said a source involved with the production. The source believed Smith has earned the right to weigh in on the script, but he says the actor's process "takes a long time."
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Others claim the copious time traveling scenes are a bit of a mess (hence bringing in the new writer to help Etan Cohen of Tropic Thunder fame). Plus, there's the whole issue of the director Barry Sonnenfeld and producer Walter Parkes supposedly not getting along, to the point that neither creator speaks to the other. But we're still not sure just how much of this is set gossip, at this point.
The real issue here, though, is this. Unless MIB3 can pull off an amazing script that can mesh with the footage that was already shot in NYC, this feature has the potential to be a disjointed mess. It's amazing that they'd go ahead with shooting the movie with only a small portion of the screenplay agreed upon. Especially since so much of MIB can be shot on a studio (inside MIB headquarters). While we love it when ever anyone spends the time to shoot on location, this decision may lead to the Men In Black being wiped out of our memories, forever.

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