While he waits for the public to forget his slap to Chris Rock at the Oscar ceremony two years ago, let time pass and he can return to an Oscar ceremony four months before the supposed next premiere of Bad Boys 4, Will Smith He has a new project to act on.
The Oscar-winning actor that fateful night for Rey Richardwill star in the action thriller Sugar Banditswhich will become the most sought-after project at the next European Film Market.
The police film will be based on the novel Devils in Exile by author Chuck Hogan. AGC Studios is financing the film, which does not yet have a director and will be sold at this month’s EFM in Berlin, where the market began today, Thursday, parallel to the Berlin Film Festival.
Hogan (author of the novel on which it was based Dangerous attractiono The Townby and with Ben Affleck, and from the script of 13 hours: The secret soldiers of Benghazi) wrote the script for Sugar Bandits adapting his own 2010 novel. The book centers on Boston-based Neal Maven, who returns from the Iraq War with few job prospects and teams up with other soldiers to rob local drug dealers.
The Hollywood Reporter previously had the scoop that Sugar Bandits was created more than a decade ago at Universal Pictures with Joe Carnahan in talks to direct, which did not come to fruition.
Smith’s most recent film was the historical thriller EmancipationAntoine Fuqua’s filmed earlier, which Apple TV+ premiered less than a year after the star made headlines for abofetear a Chris Rock at the Oscar ceremony. Smith’s other upcoming projects include the fourth film in the franchise Bad Boys and a sequel to I’m legend.
After the famous slap at the Oscar ceremony, it was revealed that Pinkett-Smith had a romantic entanglement with singer August Alsina. Since that Hollywood Academy Awards ceremony, Jada has given numerous interviews, with unpublished statements about her relationship with Will, among which stand out that, according to her, she has been separated from Smith since 2016, and that she considered that Rapper Tupac Shakur was his true soulmate.
“I think in 2016 we were just exhausted from trying. “We both seemed to be stuck in our fantasy of what the other person should be,” Jada revealed to Hoda Kotb on the show Todayfrom the NBC network.
Homosexuality rumors
To add spice to Smith’s life off the screen, a former assistant of the actor has now declared that Will had a homosexual relationship with his friend Duane Martin, co-star of The prince of Bel Air.
As stated by Brother Bilaal in the podcast Unwine With Tasha K, the two actors were having sex on a couch when he found them. Bilaal described the scene quite graphically, and mocked the size of Will Smith’s assets.
Given the statements, a representative of Smith told TMZ that Bilaal’s story was “completely fabricated and unequivocally false.” Additionally, another source reported that the actor is considering taking legal action against his former assistant for defamation.
Duane Martin, who was married to Tisha Campbell from 1996 to 2020, has not said anything about the situation.