{"id":104063,"date":"2018-07-25T11:54:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T10:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=104063"},"modified":"2018-07-25T11:54:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T10:54:49","slug":"men-in-black-spin-off-is-bringing-back-emma-thompson-as-agent-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/men-in-black-spin-off-is-bringing-back-emma-thompson-as-agent-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Men In Black spin-off is bringing back Emma Thompson as Agent O"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming\u00a0<em><strong>Men In Black<\/strong><\/em> spin-off finally has a solid link to the original film trilogy (besides the title): Agent O.<\/p>\n<p>The new film is officially set to bring back the brilliant Emma Thompson as Agent O, the chief of the MiB.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson first appeared as the character in the most recent film in the series,\u00a0<em><strong>Men In Black 3<\/strong><\/em> (2012), portraying Agent O in the present day scenes. Alice Eve played a younger version of O when the film time-hopped back to the sixties.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson joins stars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson.\u00a0They play a pair of London-based MiB agents who find themselves caught up in a worldwide murder mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Also starring is Liam Neeson as the head of the London branch of MiB, as well as Rafe Spall (<em><strong>The Ritual<\/strong><\/em>), Kumail Nanjiani (<em><strong>The Big Sleep<\/strong><\/em>) and Sartaj Garewal (<em><strong>The Infidel<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The film, which is currently untitled, is set to be a straight-up spin-off of the original three, and will take place in the\u00a0<em><strong>Men In Black\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>world but with a new cast of characters.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s being directed by F Gary Gray (<em><strong>Straight Outta Compton<\/strong><\/em>),\u00a0produced by Walter F Parkes and Laurie MacDonald and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Matt Holloway and Art Marcum, both of whom worked on\u00a0<em><strong>Iron Man<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em><strong>Transformers: The Last Knight<\/strong><\/em>, are writing the script.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The untitled\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em>Men In Black <\/em>spin-off\u00a0will be in cinemas on 14 June 2019. Get all the latest sci-fi news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Men In Black film is bringing back Emma Thompson&#8217;s Agent O <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":104064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[2494],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/emma-thompson-men-in-black-9d58.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}