00:00The studio marketing department had many debates about, you call it a reboot, or a re-ignition, or a next chapter, or whatever.
00:07It's not something we thought much about.
00:10I think I've always thought, I mean, I don't even know if this is a term, but to me it was really about expansion.
00:16It was about Men in Black as a very specific world.
00:19It's not just about those two agents.
00:21The first one, I think, effectively created that whole agency that exists.
00:26And it suggests that it's not just your lead characters that are out there doing things every day, but a whole group of agents.
00:32So to me it was more of an, it's saying that you've seen this slice of the world, and now we're going to show you more.
00:37So, I mean, it's an expansion of the universe.
00:40I think that's right.
00:41I think one of the challenges when you're making a movie like this is the balance between what are the elements that you think are sort of fundamental and basic to the franchise that you have to honor,
00:51and what are the elements that you really want to sort of push to another place?
00:54So, certainly the commitment to style, you know, it's a different style here, but, you know, Paul Smith did our suits.
01:03And we embraced sort of the 30s kind of high deco of London, the way we embrace high 60s New York.
01:13But other elements, we really felt, okay, it's a different time right now.
01:18So I think you'll see that the action of the movie is a little bit more muscular, because I think that's what audiences have come to believe.
01:25And it's sort of, what is that balance?
01:28What are the new elements you want to introduce, and what are the elements that are sort of held very preciously by the fans of the franchise?
01:34Well, we were tremendous fans, you know, based on the work we had seen already in Creed and in Thor, and actually meeting, you know, we met her before.
01:46But she was, Chris was cast first.
01:49We actually cast that role first.
01:51And then we just looked at the landscape.
01:53She really was the first, you know, we went to, just having seen her work.
01:58I'll be honest, too, I don't, we really felt it was important, because in, in the first Men in Black, Will Smith was a kind of miracle.
02:06He wasn't a star then, when we even cast him, and he was this fresh comic talent, we put him in it.
02:12And, but the movie, and it wasn't, you know, identified as a black movie, but it became very important to, to that audience.
02:20We realized as we were meeting directors and things that that was, that was kind of the first big effects movie with a black lead, strangely enough.
02:28So, we love the idea of having, you know, a great black actor in that role.
02:33Hopefully, you don't want to spend a lot of time in a movie that no one sees, but our job is to try to create it.
02:39And, and hopefully, if the studio get behind it, that means they feel it has some chance, and they have good marketing, but you never know.
02:45You never know, so.
02:46The one thing that I think has pleasantly surprised us is that, through the making, talking with people, reading about it, there is a sort of an affection for the world of Men in Black.
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