My storyline for "Men in Black:4"

I love the "Men in Black" films. They're clever, creative, fun, FX-rich, spectacular, sci-fi comedies. Yes, MIB2 was perhaps a bit similar to the first MIB (minor victim to the standard studio request of "give me the same but different"). But it's still good and I enjoyed it.

 

After watching one trailer for MIB3, I'm re-hooked and excited to see this second sequel. Apparently this third film in the trilogy is about (SPOILER ALERT for those who are deliberately avoiding the trailer so that they can see it "fresh") the familiar terrain of "time travel".

 

But I have a different storyline for a "Men in Black" sequel that, I hope, they will eventually use.

Here are the main beats...

 

1) Zed (Rip Torn) is abducted by aliens unknown to the MIB team. A new alien named Tibor (played by Andy Dick) arrives with intel about the suspected abductors. It seems that his planet has it's own ad hoc MIB team (right down to the same uniforms) and they want to establish a partnership with the MIB on Earth (and its allies).

 

2) Agent J (Will Smith) is assigned to go after Zed on Abraxis, the alien planet where the abductors are thought to have landed. The inhabitants of that alien planet look remarkably humanoid (think Star Trek TNG) and their technological advancement is barely 20 years ahead of Earth's.

 

3) Agent J is greeted by that planet's own MIB team and assigned an alien partner, Agent Tibor. Agent J is given a disguise so that he looks native to that alien planet. They have to be extra careful because the inhabitants of planet Abraxis have been in a 1000 year war with the inhabitants of Omegsis, a rival planet in its solar system. Consequently, everyone on this planet Abraxis is hyper vigilant to identify spies from Omegsis. And they, like humans on earth, have no idea how many other interstellar species exist, let alone interact.

 

4) Agents J and Tibor travel the planet Abraxis, investigating the clues left behind & interrogating suspects and searching for Zed. But Agent J's tactics are disappointingly ineffective due to the Abraxis aliens' massively different culture/norms/idiosyncrasies and Agent Tibor is no better at it (since he's so weird & amateurish). Plus the rest of the Alien planet's MIB team seem lazy or incompetent because they put in so little effort to help. Periodically Agent J & Tibor encounter Omegsian spies and they quickly arrest the spies & put them in Abraxis' ad hoc MIB detention center (for fear of exacerbating this war).

 

5) In the third act, The Arquillians (a different alien race, remembered from the first MIB movie, where they threatened Earth with destruction unless the galaxy was returned), who are now allied with Earth, seek to deploy the same tactic of "threaten Abraxis's MIB to return Zed to Earth". The ad hoc MIB get scared and immediately flee the planet entirely, leaving Agent J & Tibor to find Zed in the remaining hour before the Arquillian's destruction deadline.

 

6) Tibor messes up again in following up on another lead for Zed's whereabouts, despite Agent J's faithful encouragement. Then Agent J figures it all out and demands Tibor get out of the disguise. Agent J cuts open Tibor's mask revealing another alien species inside. Tibor is not an Abraxisian! But rather he is an Omegsisian. The entire ad hoc MIB team on Abraxis are actually Omegsisians who abducted Zed planning on pinning it on the Abraxisians so that the MIB allies would destroy the entire planet of Abraxis (their sworn enemy). Agent J stops the destruction of Abraxis and gets the Arquillians to threaten Omegsis until Zed is safely returned. Zed & Agent J return to Earth.

 

 

HOMAGE TWIST: The Abraxisians and the Omegsisians are mirrored colors of each other (inspired by the Star Trek original series episode entitled "Let that be your last battlefield").

 

 

ADVANTAGE OF THIS STORYLINE: We get to explore all the fun MIB story tropes in an inverted way (from the opposite perspective - human as the alien).

 

 

OK, so what do you think?

 

NOTE - I'd be surprised if no one pitched anything like this to the studio before. But I might have a few unique elements worth developing. You tell me.  Any MIB fans with feedback?


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