What will the star’s occupation look like in the aftermath of the 2022 Oscars?

The “slap heard round the world” at the 2022 Academy Award ceremony modified Will Smith’s career in an quick. Few will recall to mind him once more without remembering him striding on stage to strike presenter Chris Rock for a perceived insult to Jada Pinkett Smith, then yelling profanities at Rock over the shocked silence of the auditorium.

The fallout used to be swift and fierce. Smith used to be banned from the Oscars for a decade, and studios and networks cancelled and paused some of his announced initiatives. Netflix ended production on Bright 2, the sequel to the streamer’s 2017 alien/cop friend movie starring Smith. However, unsurprisingly for a celeb of his stature, Smith has more than a few initiatives nonetheless in advancement. Here are the movies Will Smith is scheduled to behave in and produce in 2022 and beyond.

Emancipation (actor and producer) – in post-production for 2023

Directed by means of Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Equalizer), Emancipation chronicles the exploits of a runaway slave, Peter (Smith), who “forges during the swamps of Louisiana on a tortuous adventure to flee plantation house owners that almost killed him” (IMDB.)

Smith’s production company, Westbrook Studios, partnered at the movie with Apple, and awards season prospects for 2022 were prime, given the movie’s reported high quality – particularly after Apple was the primary streamer to win Best Picture with final yr’s CODA. However, Variety has reported that the studio driven the film to 2023. Fuqua directed Denzel Washington into an Oscar for Training Day. Will 2023 be too early for the Academy to acknowledge a possible award-winning performance from Smith in Emancipation?

Bad Boys 4 (actor and manufacturer) – in pre-production

The Hollywood Reporter published in April that Sony Pictures has paused development of Bad Boys 4, regardless that the film remains to be set to go consistent with IMDB. Smith reunited with co-star Martin Lawrence to play cop Mike Lowrey in the 3rd film in the collection, Bad Boys for Life, in 2020. Though Bad Boys 2 were released nearly two decades earlier, still-enthusiastic audiences made Bad Boys for Life the biggest hit of the year.

Granted, studio production and distribution ceased early in 2020 due to the primary wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the slew of comic e-book movies at the slate would have for sure overtaken Smith’s film as field place of job champ. But even in an ordinary yr, $206 million in ticket sales (and greater than 426 million globally) used to be astonishing for an R-rated sequel in a 20-year-old franchise. It turns out extremely not likely that Sony would cancel Bad Boys Four once the studio has decided that a protected period of time has handed since Smith’s Oscars incident.

Fast and Loose (actor and producer) – in pre-production

While Netflix cancelled Bright 2 outright, the streaming massive has only moved the crime mystery Fast and Loose to “the back burner” consistent with The Hollywood Reporter. Smith has been forged as John Riley, a profession prison who wakes up in Mexico with amnesia and struggles to keep in mind main points of his past life.

David Leitch (Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde) was originally set to direct however had already pulled out of the project before Smith’s incident on the Academy Awards. IMDB these days lists no new director.

The Council (actor and producer) – in pre-production

According to IMDB, The Council is inspired through a real story a few a success African American crime syndicate operating in Harlem in the Nineteen Seventies. Smith is set to play notorious crime boss Nicky Barnes, who the New York Times called “Mr. Untouchable” for his deftness in eluding legislation enforcement for see you later.

Given that the film reunites Smith with Peter Landesman, who directed the actor in the 2015 NFL disclose, Concussion, audiences may be expecting constancy to real-life occasions in this mob biopic, will have to the manufacturing pass ahead. As of now, IMDB isn't listing a tentative free up date or every other cast or group individuals but even so Smith, Landesman, and a number of producers.

Hancock 2 (manufacturer) – introduced / in-development

Smith played the identify persona in the original 2008 film, a disreputable superhero who undergoes a rehab of his public image and reunites with a mysterious figure from his previous (Charlize Theron). However, Smith is credited as a producer-only in the IMDB listing for Hancock 2, so it’s no longer clear in what capacity he would return onscreen must the sequel move ahead. While TV writers Adam Fierro and Glen Mazzara are credited for the “screenplay,” plot details stay a mystery, and IMDB lists no credits beyond writers and producers.

Movieweb quoted Theron in a June 2020 article pronouncing that she can be up for a sequel and Screen Rant reported in March 22 that Colombia is creating it. Though the unique movie made just below $630 million international, it used to be panned by means of critics, and hasn’t exactly persevered as a classic among audience. That and the truth that audiences would possibly not include Smith in the superhero genre, put up “slap,” may just stay the movie in development indefinitely.

The Karate Kid 2 (manufacturer) – introduced / in-development

In addition to his appearing credits, IMDB lists Smith as a producer-only on a number of films that are announced or in pre-production, together with Uptown Saturday Night (tentatively set to star Kevin Hart), Bounce, Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun, and The Karate Kid 2.

Smith produced the 2010 reboot of The Karate Kid, starring his son, Jaden Smith. He may be an executive producer at the hit Netflix Karate Kid show, Cobra-Kai. Though Jaden isn't indexed in the cast of the sequel, his persona from the primary film, Dre Parker, options prominently in the plot description.

Only time will inform if the fallout from the “slap,” along side other tabloid problems surrounding the Smith circle of relatives, will affect manufacturing of the Karate Kid and other Smith motion pictures.

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