Men in Black: International

In 2016, Agents H and High T of the Men in Black travel to Paris to stop an invasion of the Hive—a parasitic race who invade planets by merging with the DNA of the conquered species—at the Eiffel Tower using a wormhole included in the original migration to Earth. Twenty years earlier in 1996 Brooklyn, Molly Wright witnesses her parents being neuralyzed by agents of Men in Black while she helps an alien escape, avoiding neuralyzation herself. Twenty-three years later in 2019, as Molly attempts to gain employment to the secret organization through the CIA and FBI, they are confused and assume she is delusional when she spoke about aliens. Molly finally catches a break by tracking down an alien landing and following MIB agents to their headquarters in New York City. Caught entering the agency and almost neuralyzed, Molly makes an impression on Agent O, arguing that she has proven her skills and has no life outside her search for the agency and the fact that she found them. She is then 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 about H and T's past; H has since developed a God complex, 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. These energy aliens fatally injure Vungus; before he dies, he hands M a crystal stating H has changed since they last met and can no longer be trusted. After being placed in front of High T and almost neuralyzed for allowing Vungus to be assassinated, M points out that few people knew Vungus's location, and that he was likely betrayed by one of the agents present when High T assigned H to guard him. Nervous at the possibility of a mole within MIB, High T assigns Agents C and M to conduct an investigation while H is placed on desk duty, with evidence suggesting that the alien energy twins had DNA traces of the Hive.

H convinces M to join him in following a lead to Marrakesh. There they discover a small being who is the last survivor of a small group of aliens attacked by the energy twins; with his queen killed, he pledges loyalty to M, who names him "Pawny". Walking in the streets, they discover agents were sent to arrest M and H, coordinated by C, who was given 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 where they crash and land in the desert. There they learn that Vungus's crystal is an ultimate weapon powered by a compressed blue giant star. As they attempt to repair the damaged bike, Bassam (hidden in a water canteen) steals the weapon and takes it to Riza Stavros, an intergalactic alien arms dealer and H's ex-girlfriend. After traveling to Riza's island fortress near Naples, the trio attempt to infiltrate the base but are caught by Riza and Luca Brasi, her second-in-command. M realizes Luca is the now-adult alien she rescued as a child after saying the line he told her before disappearing; he returns the favor by allowing them to leave with the weapon while he is keeping Riza contained. The three are then cornered by the energy twins demanding the crystal for the Hive; as they prepare to attack, a group of agents, including High T, emerge from the tree line and destroy them.

Although the case appears solved, H and M review the evidence and realize that the energy twins' phrases of doing anything to save their planet suggests they required the weapon to use not as their allies but 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 the weapon is missing from evidence. C also realizes High T's deception and informs H and M that High T is in Paris. As they travel to the wormhole, M's questioning of H's memory of the Hive's defeat reveals he was neuralyzed. High T reveals himself as the converted mole of the Hive and activates a wormhole to draw them to Earth. However, H is able to draw out High T's true self long enough for T to relinquish the ultimate weapon, allowing M to acquire and activate it. High T, the wormhole, and the Hive infestation trying to reach Earth are destroyed.

With the truth and tragedy of High T's assimilation into a Hive spy exposed, Agent O joins H and M in Paris, where she grants M full agent status in New York and appoints H probationary head of MIB's London branch. Before M leaves for New York, she takes one last road trip with H back to London, where she has 'gifted' Pawny to H to keep an eye on him.

• 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 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
• Tim Blaney as Frank the Pug (voice)
• Spencer Wilding as Luca Brasi
• 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

In February 2018, it was reported that Chris Hemsworth would star in the film, set to be directed by F. Gary Gray.[6] The following month, Tessa Thompson joined the cast.[7] 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.[8] The film was written by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway and produced by Laurie MacDonald and Walter Parkes.[9] In June 2018, Kumail Nanjiani, Rafe Spall, and Les Twins (Laurent and Larry Bourgeois) were added to the cast.[10][11] Danny Elfman, who scored the first three Men in Black films, returned to compose the score for the film alongside Chris Bacon.[12] Steven Spielberg executive 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.[13][14][15][16] Emma Thompson was announced as reprising her role as Agent O in the film later that month.[17] In August 2018, Rebecca Ferguson joined the cast of the film.[18] On October 17, Hemsworth confirmed that filming had wrapped.[19]

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.[20]

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.[21]

The film was originally going to be released on May 17, 2019[22] but was pushed back from its original release date of May 17, 2019 to June 14, 2019.[9] The film had its world premiere in New York City on June 11, 2019.[23]

Sony spent around $120 million on prints and advertising for the film, a figure considered to be on the "lower end" for a tentpole feature.[3] They also partnered with several companies to promote it, including Lexus, Hamilton Watches, Zaxby's, Dave & Buster's and Booking.com, for about $75 million worth of advertising.[24]

Lexus had a partnership with Sony Pictures to use their vehicles for the film, the RC and the RX, all in their F Sport variants. The motor company also designed an alien-looking spaceship in the same body of the RC model.[25]

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