Men in Black: Steven Spielberg to executive produce spin-off of Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones' film

Los Angeles: Director Steven Spielberg is on board to executive produce the Men In Black spin-off which is set for a 17 May, 2019 release. The movie is being set up with Iron Man writers Matt Holloway and Art Marcum, reports hollywoodreporter.com. It will focus on new characters as opposed to Agents K and J made famous by Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith in the original. Spielberg is set to executive produce the spinoff. He also executive produced the original trilogy. The original Men in Black (1997) led to two sequel movies with Jones and Smith - one in 2002 and one a decade later in 2012.