Sony’s MIBInternational has been billed as both a sequel and a spinoff, but according to star TessaThompson_x it is neither
s world premiere in New York this week. "It's essentially 20 years later. My character, M, who has this experience with an extraterrestrial, it happens sort of on the same timeline as when Tommy Lee [Jones] and Will [Smith]'s characters would have been working inside the organization. I think if they love the original films, our film takes a global scope, thus the 'International.' You've only ever seen these films in the context of New York City.
But for audience members, how familiar do they need to be with the three previous movies, the first of which hit theaters 22 years ago?films, said they believe the latest entry, starring Thompson and Chris Hemsworth as the agents tasked with protecting the world from the scum of the universe, stands on its own.of the franchise. "In other words, the idea of a secret police, secret agents who are protecting us from the aliens who are all around us and you just don't know it.
The tone remains the same, MacDonald explained: "You've got to be able to save the world and not even shrug afterwards." But the fourth film began with a new idea for the character that would ultimately be played by Thompson: "Molly, this young girl who has a sighting and then becomes obsessed with finding the organization, so in a way, she was the character at the beginning."
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