Men in Black debuting in 1997 was a science fiction/action/comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. The film stars Tommy Lee Jones as Agent K, Will Smith as Agent J, and Vincent D’Onofrio as Edgar/”Bug”. It was based on the Marvel Comic Series, The Men in Black by Lowell Cunningham. It was released on July 2, 1997 and gained $587 million worldwide, with a budget of $90 million. It was the third highest grossing film of 1997 behind Titanic and The Lost World: Jurassic Park. The film was spun off into an animated series, Men in Black: The Series, two sequels, Men in Black II, released in 2002, and Men in Black III , released in 2012 and a spin-off Men in Black: International.
It was just shared that NCIS LA Star Chris O’Donnell almost started!!
Insider sat down with director Sonnenfeld to get the deets.
Insider asked:
Legend has it that the producers wanted Clint Eastwood and Chris O’Donnell to play the leads. When you returned to “Men in Black,” was that still the case?
He shared:
“When we started up again, those were the two names in the mix. I had suggested Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. Will was actually my wife’s idea. They went out to Tommy Lee Jones and he said he would consider it if there was a rewrite of the script.
Then during that rewrite, Tommy got director approval so because of that I was off the movie again. This was for about four or five months. The irony is that Tommy was my idea to be in the movie in the first place.”
Oh wow, we could’ve had Chris in “Men In Black”!? We would’ve enjoyed that.
What are your thoughts?
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