SUITING UP

RAY-BANS, SHARP SUITS AND protecting Earth from the scum of the universe. Classic style never dates, it just comes back again.

“We’re sort of reigniting it,” says producer Walter F Parkes, keeper of the Men In Black franchise for over 22 years. While Will S mith and Tommy Lee Jones defined the dapper alien-zappers across three movies, latest entry Men In Black: International – a sidequel, if you must, not a reboot – introduces two new agents in the form of Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson, reunited after their turn together in Thor: Ragnarok.

“We all felt that Men In Black 3 completed not quite a trilogy, but the end of a story was told,” Parkes tells SFX. “The revelation that, in fact, the relationship between Tommy and Will was not an accident. And it felt like that had its own completeness.

“We were beyond lucky with, but when this idea came – the idea of a young woman who had an encounter as a child, who has been lied to her whole life, and has spent 20 years trying to find the Men in Black, taking us to an international adventure, that sounded interesting to us.”