Following the success of last year’s superhero smash hit ‘Thor: Ragnarok’, Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth are now looking to team up for another big movie.
Thompson is in talks to join Hemsworth in Sony’s ‘Men in Black spinoff’, according to the Variety magazine.
Fate of the Furious filmmaker F Gary Gray is set to direct the movie, written by Iron Man screenwriters Matt Holloway and Art Marcum. The studio has the film dated for June 14, 2019.
The original movie followed Smith and Jones, who played agents of a secret organisation, known as the Men in Black, and protected Earth from intergalactic bad guys. The first film was huge hit and produced two more sequels.
Sony had originally planned on combining the ‘Men in Black’ and ‘21 Jump Street’ franchises, but have since tabled that idea.
Walter F Parkes and Laurie MacDonald are back as producers, while Steven Spielberg is returning as executive producer, says the Hollywood reporter.
David Beaubaire is overseeing the pic for Sony.
In addition to Thompson’s scene-stealing work as the Asgardian warrior Valkyrie in Ragnarok, she appeared in Alex Garland’s recent sci-fi picture Annihilation and is currently shooting Creed II, returning for the boxing drama sequel along with Michael B Jordan.
This summer she’ll stars in Annapurna’s Sorry to Bother You and has a prominent role in HBO’s upcoming second season of Westworld, which launches this spring.
She is repped by Greene and Associates, Mosaic, and Jackoway Tyerman.
