Men in Black: International

In 1996 Brooklyn, Molly Wright as a young girl witnesses her parents being neuralyzed by agents of Men in Black after they see an alien in their home. Molly helps the alien escape, avoiding neuralyzation herself. Twenty-three years later, Molly applies to work for the FBI and is accepted but is then rejected when she asks about the Men in Black. Molly then applies at the CIA but is rejected for the same reason. After that, Molly works for a call center, and one day she sees an alien pod via satellite imagery. She goes home and sees a cover-up story of the image on her laptop. Molly tracks down the alien landing and follows MIB agents to their headquarters in New York City. Caught entering the agency, Molly makes an impression on Agent O after revealing she had bypassed neuralyzation, arguing that her obsessive search for them makes her 'perfect' for the job and has no life outside her search for the agency. She is awarded probationary agent status as "Agent M" and assigned to the organization's London branch.

There, M meets High T, head of the London branch, and Agent H. M learns that H and High T fought off an invasion of the Hive – a parasitic race who invade planets by merging with the DNA of the conquered species – at the Eiffel Tower in 2016, using a wormhole included in the original migration to Earth; H has since become unconcerned with his duties and only keeping his job due to High T covering for him. M arranges for herself to be assigned to assist H in his meeting with Vungus the Ugly, his close friend and alien royalty. During their night out with Vungus, they are accosted by mysterious alien twins able to manifest as pure energy. They fatally injure Vungus, who gives M a strange crystal before he dies, claiming that H has changed since they last met and cannot be trusted. M points out that few people knew Vungus' location, and he was likely betrayed by one of the agents present when High T assigned H to guard him. Nervous at the possibility of a traitor within MiB, High T assigns Agents C and M to investigate while H is demoted to desk duty, with evidence suggesting that the twins had DNA traces of the Hive.

H convinces M to join him in following a lead to Marrakesh, where they recover "Pawny", the last survivor of a small group of aliens attacked by the Twins. Pawny pledges loyalty to M, and they are trapped by MiB agents coordinated by C, who recovered video footage of Vungus passing the crystal to M and believes she is the traitor. With the aid of alien contacts Nasr and Bassam, H escapes with M and Pawny on a rocket-powered bike, and they learn that Vungus’ crystal is a weapon powered by a compressed blue giant. As they repair the damaged bike, Bassam steals the weapon and takes it to Riza Stavros, an alien arms dealer, and H's ex-girlfriend. Traveling to Riza's island fortress, the trio attempts to infiltrate the base, but is caught by Riza and her bodyguard Luca Brasi. Luca, the alien M rescued as a child, returns the favor by allowing them to leave with the weapon while he keeps Riza contained. The three are cornered by the Twins, who are killed by High T and a group of agents.

Although the case appears concluded, H and M review the evidence and realize that the Twins' phrases suggest they required the weapon to use against the Hive, especially when the only evidence of Hive DNA was provided by High T. They discover High T has deleted the case file and not sent the weapon to evidence, and has gone to the Eiffel Tower with the weapon. C also realizes High T's deception and allows H and M to follow High T to the Eiffel Tower. As they travel to the reopened wormhole, M's questioning of H's memory of the Hive's defeat reveals he was neuralyzed when the Hive converted High T into one of their own. The High T/Hive hybrid activates a wormhole to draw the Hive to Earth, but H draws out High T's true personality long enough for M to use the weapon at full capacity to destroy High T and the Hive infestation trying to reach Earth.

With the truth of High T's conversion exposed, Agent O joins H and M in Paris, where she grants M full agent status and appoints H probationary head of MiB's London branch.

• Chris Hemsworth as Henry / Agent H, a top agent in the MIB UK branch
• Tessa Thompson as Molly Wright / Agent M, a rookie MIB recruit assigned to the UK branch
  • Mandeiya Flory as Young Molly
• Liam Neeson as High T, the head of the MIB UK branch
• Kumail Nanjiani (voice) as Pawny, a tiny alien warrior that H and M befriend
• Rafe Spall as Agent C, an MIB agent in the UK branch who is skeptical of H's past
• Rebecca Ferguson as Riza Stavros, an alien intergalactic arms dealer and H's ex-girlfriend
• Laurent and Larry Bourgeois as the Twins, a shape-shifting alien duo seeking a dangerous artifact
  • Larry Bourgeois also portrays the human that the Twins kill and base their appearance on
• Emma Thompson as Agent O, the head of the MIB who operates in the US
• Kayvan Novak as Vungus the Ugly, a member of an alien royal family and friend of H
  • Kayvan Novak also portrays Nasr and voices Bassam
• Annie Burkin as Nerlene
• Tim Blaney as Frank the Pug (voice)
• Spencer Wilding as Luca Brasi, an alien mobster who acts as personal bodyguard to Riza Stavros
• Marcy Harriell and Inny Clemons cameo as Molly's parents in a flashback
• Thom Fountain and Drew Massey as the Worm Guys (voices) worm-like aliens that work for MIB
• Stephen Wight as Guy / Stupid guy in a call center next to Molly

In February 2018, it was reported that Chris Hemsworth would star in the film, set to be directed by F. Gary Gray.[8] The following month, Tessa Thompson joined the cast.[9] In May 2018, it was reported that Liam Neeson was in talks to star in the film as the head of the UK branch of the agency.[10] The film was written by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway and produced by Laurie MacDonald and Walter Parkes.[11] In June 2018, Kumail Nanjiani, Rafe Spall, and Les Twins (Laurent and Larry Bourgeois) were added to the cast.[12][13] Danny Elfman, who scored the first three Men in Black films, returned to compose the score for the film alongside Chris Bacon.[14] Steven Spielberg executively produced, as he did for the first three MIB entries, along with Barry Sonnenfeld, who directed all the previous films.

The Aragonese Castle in Ischia was one of the filming locations

Principal photography on the film began on July 9, 2018, at Leavesden Studios and on location in London, and continued in Marrakesh such as the Jemaa el-Fnaa and El Badi Palace, Ischia and the Aragonese Castle, and New York City.[15][16][17][18] Emma Thompson was announced as reprising her role as Agent O in the film later that month.[19] In August 2018, Rebecca Ferguson joined the cast of the film.[20] On October 17, Hemsworth confirmed that filming had wrapped.[21]

Visual effects for the film were provided by Double Negative, and supervised by Alessandro Ongaro with the help of Rodeo FX, Sony Pictures Imageworks and Method Studios.[22]

The film went through a troubled production due to frequent clashes between director Gray and producer Parkes, which started when the executive overseeing the project, Sony's executive vice president of production David Beaubaire, exited the studio in the summer of 2018, and was not replaced. An early draft of the script, which Sony initially praised, and which received the attention of stars Hemsworth and Thompson, had an edgier tone than the finished film; it featured sociopolitical commentary on the current debate surrounding immigration. The main antagonists were to be an alien music group inspired by the Beatles, with the four members merging into one villain during the climax. Parkes, who had final cut on the film, had a heavy hand in overseeing rewrites during pre-production and filming. Parkes' new script pages stripped away the early draft's modern sensibilities, and were newly sent, daily, to Hemsworth and Thompson, who were both so confused that they hired their own dialogue writers. Parkes not only dictated rewrites but stepped in on directing duties, although no Directors Guild of America rules were said to have been violated. Gray tried to exit the production several times but was convinced to stay by Sony. Parkes and Gray also clashed over the color-correction process during post-production. The studio tested two cuts—one put together by Gray, the other by Parkes—with the version by Parkes being chosen as the theatrical cut.[23]

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