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#34 - Men in Black (1997)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The Blues Brothers With UFOs

It was written by Ed Solomon, who we've talked about on the podcast before. There's a movie also. I remember seeing it in a film class and I was like, whoa, this is crazy. It's Miles Dyson stars in that, doesn't he? I think so. John Landis was originally approached to do this movie. He turned it down because he said it was like the Blues Brothers with UFOs. So can you see Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi? No, right, right. Yes. But maybe they're us. And then they recruit John Goodman to be right. Right, right,right.

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