I hope you’ll join me in glossing over the awful sequel to the 1997 Men In Black film and come to news of a Men In Black 3 with a fresh sense of optimism.

Barry Sonnenfeld’s late ninties cosmic caper blended perfectly the newly minted CGI whirligig with the comic book sensibilities of the source, and while the Hollywood sheen blunted a few edges the engaging duo of Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith made for an enjoyable ride.

(This is the part where we gloss over the sequel.)

So now here we are with rumours on casting, following previous reports of Josh Brolin a likely candidate for a young Tommy Lee Jones in the movie and Tropic Thunder writer Etan Cohen being tipped to write the third installment, Bloody Disgusting have two more names for this forthcoming film.

While I thought Borat and Bruno were fine as attempts at a one man demolition crew, I enjoyed his turn in Sweeney Todd far more, giving Sacha Baron Cohen a character not of his own creating allowed him to step back a little and check him ego in check and emerge as a fine character actor. So the news that he’s talking to the producers about a role is a good thing – let’s have him as the bad guy, ok?

Flight of the Conchords’ Jemaine Clement is also rumoured to be in talks to star, perhaps as a MIB himself, whatever happens with these choices, and whoever signs on the dotted line the fact that Sony are looking at these two is probably a good sign for the third film.