MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
1997. “Men in Black”	11 September 1997

STARRING:

Cast •Tommy Lee Jones as Kevin Brown / Agent K: J's grizzled and humorless mentor. Clint Eastwood turned down the part, while Jones only accepted the role after Steven Spielberg promised the script would improve, based on his respect for Spielberg's track record. He had been disappointed with the first draft, which he reportedly said "stank"; he felt it did not capture the tone of the comic. •Will Smith as James Darrell Edwards III / Agent J: A former NYPD detective, newly recruited to the MIB. Smith was cast because Barry Sonnenfeld's wife was a fan of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Sonnenfeld also liked his performance in Six Degrees of Separation. Chris O'Donnell turned down the role because he found the role of a new recruit too similar to Dick Grayson, whom he played in Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. David Schwimmer also turned down the part. Like Jones, Smith said he accepted the role after meeting with Spielberg and cited his success as a producer. •Linda Fiorentino as Dr. Laurel Weaver: A deputy medical examiner who has had a few run-ins with the MIB in the past. •Vincent D'Onofrio as the Bug: A giant alien insect who eats a farmer and uses his skin as a disguise. He comes to earth to kidnap the Galaxy and use it to destroy the Arquillians. John Turturro and Bruce Campbell were both offered the role. D'Onofrio also portrays Edgar, the farmer/abusive husband that gets killed by the Bug and has his form used by him. •Rip Torn as Chief Zed: The head of the MIB. •Tony Shalhoub as Jack Jeebs: An alien, posing as a pawn shop owner, who deals in illegal weapons. •Siobhan Fallon Hogan as Beatrice: The psychologically abused wife of the abusive farmer Edgar, whom the 'Bug' killed and used his skin as a disguise. •Mike Nussbaum as Gentle Rosenberg: An Arquillian jeweler who is the guardian of "the Galaxy". •Jon Gries as Van Driver •Sergio Calderòn as Jose •John Alexander as Mikey: An alien who poses as a Mexican being snuck across the border. •Patrick Breen as Mr. Redgick •Becky Ann Baker as Mrs. Redgick •Carel Struycken as Arquillian •Fredric Lehne as Agent Janus •Kent Faulcon as Jake Jensen •Richard Hamilton as Agent D: K's partner at the start of the film, he decides he is too old for the job and has K erase his memory so he can retire. •David Cross as Newton •Sean Whalen as Passport Officer Voices •Tim Blaney as Frank: A smart-talking pug-like alien. •Mark Sektrakian as Rosenberg Alien •Brad Abrell as Worm Guy •Greg Ballora as Worm Guy •Thom Fountain as Worm Guy •Carl J. Johnson as Worm Guy

SYNOPSIS:

After a government agency makes first contact with aliens in 1961, alien refugees live in secret on Earth by disguising themselves as humans in the New York metropolitan area. Men in Black is a secret agency that polices these aliens, protects Earth from intergalactic threats and uses memory-erasing neuralyzers to keep alien activity a secret. Men in Black agents have their former identities erased, and retired agents are neuralyzed and given new identities. After an operation to arrest an alien criminal named Mikey near the Mexican border by Agents K and D, D decides that he is too old for his job, prompting K to neuralyze him and look for a new partner. New York Police Department officer James Darrell Edwards III pursues a supernaturally fast and agile suspect into the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Impressed, K interviews James about his encounter, then neuralyzes him and leaves him a business card with an address. Edwards goes to the address and undergoes a series of tests, for which he finds unorthodox solutions, including a rational hesitation in a targeting test. While the other candidates, who are military-grade, are neuralyzed, K offers Edwards a position with the Men in Black. Edwards accepts and his identity and civilian life are erased, becoming Agent J respectively. In upstate New York, an alien illegally crash-lands on Earth and kills a farmer named Edgar to use his skin as a disguise. Tasked with finding a device called "The Galaxy", the Edgar alien goes into a New York restaurant and finds two aliens (disguised as humans) who are supposed to have it in their possession. He kills them and takes a container from them but is angered to find only diamonds inside. After learning about the incident in a tabloid magazine, K investigates the crash landing and concludes that Edgar's skin was taken by a "bug", a species of aggressive cockroach-like aliens. He and J head to a morgue to examine the bodies the bug killed. Inside one body (which turns out to be a piloted robot) they discover a dying Arquillian alien, who says that "to prevent war, the galaxy is on Orion's belt". The alien, who used the name Rosenberg, was a member of the Arquillian royal family; K fears his death may spark a war. Men in Black informant Frank the Pug, an alien disguised as a pug, explains that the missing galaxy is a massive energy source housed in a small jewel. J deduces that the galaxy is hanging on the collar of Rosenberg's cat, Orion, which refuses to leave the body at the morgue. J and K arrive just as the bug takes the galaxy and kidnaps the coroner, Laurel Weaver. Meanwhile, an Arquillian battleship fires a warning shot in the Arctic and delivers an ultimatum to Men in Black: return the galaxy within a "galactic standard week", in an hour of Earth time, or they will destroy Earth. The bug arrives at the observation towers of the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair New York State Pavilion at Flushing Meadows, which disguise two real flying saucers. Once there, Laurel escapes the bug's clutches when it accidentally drops her. It activates one of the saucers and tries to leave Earth, but K and J shoot it down and the ship crashes into the Unisphere. The bug sheds Edgar's skin and swallows J and K's guns. K provokes it until he too is swallowed. The bug tries to escape on the other ship, but J slows it down by taunting it and crushing cockroaches, angering it. K blows the bug apart from the inside, having found his gun inside its stomach. J and K recover the galaxy and relax, thinking the whole ordeal over, only for the still living upper half of the bug to pounce on them from behind, but Laurel kills it with J's gun. At Men in Black headquarters, K tells J that he has not been training him as a partner, but a replacement. K bids J farewell before J neuralyzes him at his request; K returns to his civilian life, and Laurel becomes J's new partner, L. The camera pulls back and zooms out to reveal the entire galaxy is a marble just like the one around the neck of the cat, Orion - being used to play marbles by an alien.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
2002. “Men in Black II”	3 July 2002

STARRING:

Cast •Tommy Lee Jones as Kevin Brown / Agent K: A decommissioned senior MIB agent and the only person who knows (or knew) how to stop the latest threat to Earth's safety. •Will Smith as James Darrell Edwards III / Agent J: Still on active duty with the MIB, he is not satisfied with the partners assigned to him and keeps neuralizing them. •Lara Flynn Boyle as Serleena: A shapeshifting alien who has come to Earth to find a vital power source used by her race's enemies. •Johnny Knoxville as Scrad / Charlie: A humanoid alien (Scrad), with a second small head (Charlie) on a stalk protruding from his neck, who does Serleena's dirty work. •Rosario Dawson as Laura Vasquez: A young woman who turns out to be the long-lost alien princess from Zartha and the power source sought by Serleena. •Tony Shalhoub as Jack Jeebs: An alien pawn shop owner who uses a home-built machine to "de-neuralize" K and restore his memory. •Rip Torn as Chief Zed: The head of the MIB. •Patrick Warburton as Agent T: Partnered with J, who neuralizes him and throws him out of the MIB after an incident with Jeff. •Jack Kehler as Ben •David Cross as Newton •Colombe Jacobsen as Hailey •John Alexander as Jarra •Michael Jackson as Agent M (cameo) •Martha Stewart as Herself (cameo) •Stan Lee as Himself (cameo) •Peter Graves as Himself •Linda Kim as Princess Lauranna, an alien from Zartha and the secret mother of Laura. •Paige Brooks as 'Mysteries in History' Lauranna •Nick Cannon as MIB Autopsy Agent •Biz Markie as Alien Beatboxer •Jeremy Howard as Postal Sorting Alien Voices •Tim Blaney as Frank the Pug •Brad Abrell as Worm Guy •Greg Ballora as Worm Guy •Thom Fountain as Worm Guy •Carl J. Johnson as Worm Guy •Richard Pearson as Gordy

SYNOPSIS:

Five years after the retirement of Agent K from Men in Black, a secret New York City-based agency that monitors and regulates extraterrestrial life residing on Earth, Agent J - K's former partner and hand-picked replacement - is called to investigate the murder of an alien, Ben, at his pizzeria. The waitress, Laura Vasquez, tells him that the murderers are Serleena, a shapeshifting, plant-like Kylothian who has taken the form of a Victoria's Secret lingerie model, and her two-headed servant Scrad and Charlie. Laura says they were looking for something called the Light of Zartha. J is strongly attracted to Laura, and in violation of MiB rules, does not neuralyze her to erase her memories. J finds that little is known about the Light of Zartha, except that it is immensely powerful. As he investigates the crime, every lead points to his mentor, Agent K, who was neuralyzed upon retirement and remembers nothing of his MiB service. In Truro, Massachusetts, where K is now the town's postmaster, J convinces him by proving that all of his fellow postal workers are aliens. Back in New York City, Serleena along with Scrad and Charlie launch an attack on MiB headquarters before K's neuralyzation can be reversed, but Jack Jeebs has an illegal deneuralyzer in his basement. K regains his memories, but remembers that years before, he neuralyzed himself specifically to erase what he knew of the Light of Zartha and those memories have not returned. As a precaution, he left himself a series of clues. At the pizzeria, they find a locker key. J and K fear for Laura's safety and hide her with the worms. The key opens a locker in Grand Central Station where a society of tiny aliens, who worship K as their deity, guard their most sacred relics: K's wristwatch and video store membership card. At the store, as J and K watch a fictionalized story of the Light of Zartha, K remembers the Zarthan Queen Lauranna long ago entrusted Men in Black with safeguarding the Light from her nemesis, Serleena, who followed Laurana to Earth and killed her. After hiding the Light, a grief-stricken K neuralyzed himself so as to bury his sadness and ensure that he would never reveal its hiding place. K still cannot remember where he hid it nor what the Light actually looks like. Thinking it might be Laura's bracelet, he only remembers that it must return to Zartha soon or else both Earth and Zartha will be destroyed. At the worms' apartment, they find that Laura has been kidnapped by Serleena. With the worms, they counterattack MiB headquarters, freeing Laura and the other agents. Serleena attempts to retaliate by chasing them with a spaceship through New York, but is eaten by Jeff, a gigantic worm alien living in the New York City Subway. Laura's bracelet leads J and K to the roof of a skyscraper where a ship stands ready to transport the Light back to Zartha. The two realize Laura is the daughter of Lauranna and is herself the Light. K convinces J and Laura that she must go to Zartha to save both her planet and Earth from destruction. Serleena, who has assimilated Jeff and taken his form, attempts to snatch the ship carrying Laura as it lifts off, but J and K blast her out of the sky. Since all of New York City has just witnessed this battle in the skies over the metropolis, K activates a giant neuralyzer in the torch of the Statue of Liberty. Back at MiB headquarters, K and Chief Zed, hoping to cheer up a heartbroken J, have relocated the tiny locker-dwelling aliens to his Men in Black locker. When J suggests showing the miniature creatures that their universe is bigger than a locker, K shows J that the human universe is itself a locker within an immense alien train station.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
2012. “Men in Black 3”	24 May 2012

STARRING:

•Will Smith as Agent J •Tommy Lee Jones as Agent K •Josh Brolin as Young Agent K •Jemaine Clement as Boris the Animal •Emma Thompson as Agent O •Michael Stuhlbarg as Griffin •Mike Colter as Colonel James Darrell Edwards Jr. •Michael Chernus as Jeffrey Price •Alice Eve as Young Agent O •Nicole Scherzinger as Lily •David Rasche as Agent X •Keone Young as Mr. Wu •Bill Hader as Agent W •Will Arnett as Agent AA •Lanny Flaherty as Obadiah Price •Cayen Martin as Young Agent J Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and Tim Burton make uncredited cameo appearances as aliens on the TV monitors. Rick Baker appears in a cameo as the Brain Alien. Will Arnett portrays the uncredited MIB Agent AA, J's partner in the altered timeline. Tony Shalhoub has an uncredited cameo as a 1960s Newsdealer, and Rip Torn cameos as a large-headed alien at Zed's funeral.

SYNOPSIS:

In 2012, an alien criminal named Boris the Animal, a Boglodite, escapes from a maximum-security prison on the Moon and goes to Earth to take revenge on Agent K, who shot off his left arm and captured him in 1969. He confronts K, who is with his partner Agent J, and tells him he is "already dead". Back at MiB Headquarters, J peruses MiB's files and discovers K was responsible not only for capturing Boris, but for deploying the "ArcNet", a shield that prevented the Boglodites from conquering Earth, causing their extinction. Using an illegal time-jump device, Boris travels back in time to kill the young Agent K. With history altered so that K is long-dead, only J's memory is somehow unaffected, and no one from the Agency understands his obsession with K until Agent O, the new Chief of MIB following Zed's death, deduces there has been a fracture in the space-time continuum. With K dead, the ArcNet was never deployed, and there is nothing to protect the present-day Earth from the Boglodite invasion, so J uses the same device to travel back in time to stop Boris and save K. Once in 1969, J goes to Coney Island, knowing from the Agency's records that in 1969, Boris will commit a murder there. However, he ends up arrested by young K, who takes him to MiB Headquarters and prepares to neuralyze him, but decides at the last minute to investigate J's claims that he traveled from the future to protect him. K and J follow clues, leading them to a bowling alley, then to The Factory, where they come across an alien named Griffin, who is in possession of the ArcNet. Griffin, who can see all possible future timelines and outcomes, senses Boris is coming and flees, but tells J and K where to meet him so he can give them the ArcNet. There, Boris captures Griffin. J and K pursue and rescue Griffin, acquiring the ArcNet. Young Boris escapes and Old Boris arrives, and they team up. Upon learning that they must go to Cape Canaveral so they can attach the ArcNet to the Apollo 11 rocket to deploy it in space, J reveals that Boris will kill K, who initially takes the news badly. J, K, and Griffin fly there using jetpacks, but they are stopped by the military. Griffin shows a colonel the future, revealing to him the importance of their mission, and the officer assists them in reaching the launch site. As the agents climb the rocket's launch tower, they are attacked by both young and old Boris. Unable to stop old Boris, J uses his time-travel device to evade his attacks and knock him off one of the launch tower bridges. K shoots off young Boris's left arm, knocking him off of the tower while also restoring the timeline. K attaches the ArcNet to the rocket and it is deployed successfully when the rocket launches, with old Boris incinerated by the rocket exhaust. Young Boris attacks K on a beach, but the colonel saves K by sacrificing himself. Boris, knowing he is going to be arrested from his older self, taunts K, but this causes K to kill him, thus preventing the cycle from repeating. The colonel's young son arrives and when he inquires about his father, K neuralyzes him and tells him only that his father is a hero. Observing from afar, J realizes that the young boy is himself, the colonel was his father, K has been watching over him his whole life and that he was there when the timeline changed, thus explaining why he was the only one who remembered K in the alternate 2012. With his mission complete, J returns to 2012, where he reconciles with K, who tells him that the Boglodites are now extinct. Griffin observes this, and says it is his new favorite moment in human history.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
2019. “Men in Black - International”	14 June 2019

STARRING:

•Chris Hemsworth as Henry / Agent H, a top agent in the MIB UK branch. •Tessa Thompson as Molly Wright / Agent M, a rookie MIB recruit assigned to the UK branch. •Mandeiya Flory as Young Molly. •Kumail Nanjiani as Pawny (voice), a tiny alien warrior that H and M befriend. •Liam Neeson as High T, the head of the MIB UK branch. •Rafe Spall as Agent C, an MIB agent in the UK branch who is sceptical of H's past. •Rebecca Ferguson as Riza Stavros, an alien intergalactic arms dealer and H's ex-girlfriend. •Laurent and Larry Bourgeois as The Twins, a shape-shifting alien duo seeking a dangerous artifact. •Larry Bourgeois also portrays the human that The Twins kill and base their appearance on. •Emma Thompson as Agent O, the head of the MIB who operates in the US. •Kayvan Novak as Vungus the Ugly, a member of an alien royal family and friend of H. •Kayvan Novak also portrays Nasr and Bassam •Tim Blaney as Frank the Pug (voice) •Spencer Wilding as Luca Brasi •Marcy Harriell and Inny Clemons cameo as Molly's parents in a flashback. •Thom Fountain and Drew Massey as the Worm Guys (voices), worm-like aliens that work for MIB.

SYNOPSIS:

In 2016, Agents H and High T of the MiB travel to Paris to stop an invasion of the Hive - a parasitic race who invade planets by merging with the DNA of the conquered species - at the Eiffel Tower using a wormhole included in the original migration to Earth. Twenty years earlier in 1996 Brooklyn, Molly Wright witnesses her parents being neuralysed by agents of Men in Black while she helps an alien escape, avoiding neuralysation herself. Twenty-three years later in 2019, rejected from FBI and CIA due to her "delusions" regarding alien life, Molly tracks down an alien landing and follows MiB agents to MiB headquarters in New York City. Caught entering the agency, Molly makes an impression on Agent O, arguing that she has proven her skills and has no life outside her search for the agency. She is awarded probationary agent status as "Agent M" and assigned to the organisation's London branch. There, M meets High T, head of the London branch, and Agent H. M learns about H and T's past; H has since developed a God complex, unconcerned with his duties and only keeping his job due to High T covering for him. M arranges for herself to be assigned to assist H in his meeting with Vungus the Ugly, his close friend and alien royalty. During their night out with Vungus, they are accosted by mysterious alien twins able to manifest as pure energy. These energy aliens fatally injure Vungus, who gives M a strange crystal before he dies, claiming that H has changed since they last met and cannot be trusted. M points out that few people knew Vungus' location, and that he was likely betrayed by one of the agents present when High T assigned H to guard him. Nervous at the possibility of a traitor within MiB, High T assigns Agents C and M to conduct an investigation while H is demoted to desk duty, with evidence suggesting that the alien energy twins had DNA traces of the Hive. H convinces M to join him in following a lead to Marrakesh, where they recover "Pawny", the last survivor of a small group of aliens attacked by the Twins. In averting his honour suicide, Pawny subsequently pledges his loyalty to M. They are trapped by MiB agents coordinated by C, who recovered video footage of Vungus passing the crystal to M and believes she is the traitor. With the aid of alien contacts Nasr and Bassam, H escapes with M and Pawny on a rocket-powered bike, and they learn that Vungus' crystal is an ultimate weapon powered by a compressed blue giant. After the crash during their escape, they repair the damaged bike. Bassam steals the weapon and takes it to Riza Stavros, an alien arms dealer and H's ex-girlfriend. Travelling to Riza's island fortress near Naples, the trio attempts to infiltrate the base, but are caught by Riza and Luca Brasi, now Riza's second-in-command. Luca is discovered as the alien M rescued as a child. Luca returns the favour by allowing them to leave with the weapon while he keeps Riza contained. The three are then cornered by the Twins, who are killed by High T and a group of agents who had been trailing M and H. Although the case appears solved, H and M review the evidence and realise that the Twins' phrases of doing anything to save their planet suggests they required the weapon to use not as their allies but ''against'' the Hive, especially when the only evidence of Hive DNA was provided by High T. They discover High T has deleted the case file and did not send the weapon to evidence. C also realises High T's deception and allows H and M to follow High T to the Eiffel Tower. As they travel to the wormhole, M's questioning of H's memory of the Hive's defeat reveals he was neuralysed. High T reveals himself as the converted mole of the Hive and activates a wormhole to draw them to Earth. However H draws out High T's true personality long enough for him to relinquish the ultimate weapon, allowing M to acquire the weapon, destroying High T, the wormhole and the Hive infestation trying to reach Earth. With the truth and tragedy of High T's assimilation into a Hive spy exposed, Agent O joins H and M in Paris, where she grants M full agent status and appoints H probationary head of MiB's London branch.