MIB III due May 2012

Things haven't been going too smoothly of late for the third installment of the Men in Black franchise with its script having been subject to a number of rewrites and the film's production currently on hiatus. Nevertheless, Columbia Pictures is standing firm on its scheduled release date of 25 May, 2012.

The film's plot will see Will Smith's 'Agent J' travel back in time to 1969 to team-up with a younger version of Tommy Lee Jones' MIB curmudgeon 'Agent K' in order to once again save the world from 'the worst scum of the universe.'

With Josh Brolin in the role of the young 'Agent K' and with other new cast members including Emma Thompson and Alice Eve (with the latter playing a younger version of the former), as well as Jemaine Clement on villian duty, Columbia Pictures clearly is hoping that some fresh faces and a temporal change in scenery will breath new life into the MIB universe. The other added ingredient this time around, of course, is 3D.