Released in June 2019, the reboot of the Men in Black franchise, titled Men in Black International, didn’t quite shine at the box office. F. Very low, considering the film’s production budget of about $110 million, to which we must of course add the marketing budget…
Just five days after the film’s release, The Hollywood Reporter revealed the tumultuous behind-the-scenes production, to say the least, highlighting the various changes that took place before and during filming.
Against the background of these difficult adventures, the rivalry that continued with the director F. between Gary Gray and producer Walter Parkes (already known to have worked on the first films of the saga).
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the latter made numerous changes to the original script written by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway before and during filming, even going so far as to provide new pages to Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson every day. who didn’t shy away from hiring their own dialogue writers on set… The icing on the cake: the actor also refused to speak a famous line once spoken by Will Smith…
However, according to the Hollywood Reporter, there was an initial script for the film “more subversive and more involved in current affairs”, even addresses the debate around immigration. As for the villain(s), in the earliest versions, they were four members of a Beatles-style musical group who could unite as a single unit.
Add to this the fact that the director F. Gary Gray reportedly tried to leave the project several times, and two edits (his and producer Walter Park’s) were submitted to the studio, which ultimately chose Parkis’. good atmosphere…
Reasons for failure… According to the CEO of Sony Pictures
A month after the big reveal, it’s the Sony executive’s turn to speak on the subject in a way that hasn’t been done before. Moreover, the senior manager, because it was the big boss himself, Tom Rothman.
in the given interview Business InsiderHe expressed disappointment when Major hoped to relaunch the once-profitable franchise and repeated the box office flop that was the Jumanji reboot, which grossed more than $960 million on a low budget of $100 million.
“Did we miss out? Men Black International wasn’t particularly a financial disappointment, as it ended up earning between $245 and $300 million at the worldwide box office. But it’s not “obviously not what we expected. To reload this license” The interested person pleaded.
“I think the audience really liked the movie, and the casting was great; Tessa and Chris did a great job. But if we made any mistakes, I think it was mostly because of the lack of strong ideas in the story. Especially when you compare it to Jumanji, which is really, really strong.” He had an idea.” Obviously we can’t blame Tom Rothman for making an argument for the lack of strong ideas on this opus, but it’s still very short…
And the person concerned continues: “The lesson of all this is that you have to continue to take risks. But you also have to manage them. In the case of MIB International, we had two co-producers, so the risks were calculated and manageable. I honestly think you can’t avoid risk in the film industry. If you try to do it , you kill creativity, and if you kill creativity, you kill success.”
Unless Sony ends up dumping the franchise, it still has a lot of problems in its wings. Not to mention that Will Smith has no desire to return to it. “Three films are enough” It came up recently.
Source: Allocine
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