The Men in Black franchise is continuing with a spinoff movie that shifts focus away from Will Smith’s Agent J and Tommy Lee Jones’s Agent K to a new generation of suit-sporting enforcers. – Seriously, they’re not coming back, at least, that’s the word. Men in Black: International will serve as the official title of the franchise’s summer 2019-scheduled fourth film, a spinoff/sequel.

F. Gary Gray – who has plenty of blockbuster success with The Fate of the Furious, as well as the Oscar-nominated 2015 NWA biopic, Straight Outta Compton – serves as director for Men in Black: International. Gray’s directorial claim to fame also includes 1995’s original Friday and the 2003 remake of The Italian Job.

Here, Gray worked off a script written by Matt Holloway and Art Marcum, the duo behind 2008’s Marvel Cinematic Universe-launching Iron Man and 2017’s Transformers: The Last Knight – and, for what it’s worth, the notorious 2008 Marvel effort, Punisher: War Zone.

The film’s executive producer roster has no shortage of gravitas with Steven Spielberg, who served in that capacity for the original MIB Trilogy. Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald are also onboard as producers, along with Sony’s David Beaubaire.