Smith and Jones go back to Black

If you knocked Will Smith over the noggin with a frying pan this week, no doubt little animated threes would start spinning around his head.

See, he’s reportedly signed on to two threequels for his best-known franchises – both Men In Black 3 and Bad Boys 3 .

Meanwhile, Martin Lawrence has been yacking about Bad Boys 3 . And according to him, both his BB co-star Will Smith and director Michael Bay are good to go.

Talking to MTV , he said:

“I got Big Willie to come down and see me about the movie. I felt special.

“Any time you can get Big Willie to come out and talk about doing a third instalment of a hot movie like Bad Boys , you have to take notice. I met with Michael Bay, and he said he’s onboard too - so it’s real.”

Peter Craig wrote the Bad Boys 3 script last year – but the project could test the priorities of its participators. With Bay busy on that other threequel Transformers 3 , could Smith squeeze MiB3D in before that? Or will he be forced to choose between them?

Which threequel would you rather see?

Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.