Liam Neeson suited, booted and kicking alien ass? Sign us up.
The Northern Irish actor is in negotiations to join Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson in Sony’s Men in Black spinoff, according to Variety.
F. Gary Gray, who previously helmed Straight Outta Compton and The Fate of the Furious, is on board to direct. Iron Man’s Matt Holloway and Art Marcum are penning the script.
The original MIB movies starred Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, who are not expected to return for the spinoff. The new film picks up after the events of the trilogy.
Plot details and the characters that Hemsworth and Thompson are playing have been kept under wraps, but according to reports, Neeson, who last starred in The Commuter, will play the head of the U.K. branch of the Men in Black agency in London.
Sony has slated the spinoff for a June 14th 2019 release.