Liam Neeson is in negotiations to join Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson in the fourth Men in Black film at Sony Pictures. F. Gary Gray (The Fate of the Furious) is on board to direct the project which is being fast-tracked and will shoot in the U.K. next month.
Thompson plays a new recruit at the London branch of the MIB who finds herself partnered with “former ace” MIB agent “H” (Hemsworth). The pair soon find themselves embroiled in a murder mystery that will see them crossing the globe.
Neeson will play the head of the U.K. branch of the MIB. Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald are producing, Matt Holloway and Art Marcum have penned the script and the film opens next Summer.