{"id":51040,"date":"2025-08-07T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/51040\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:45:08","slug":"michael-bay-exits-netflixs-will-smith-action-movie-fast-and-loose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/51040\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bay Exits Netflix’s Will Smith Action Movie ‘Fast and Loose’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMichael Bay<\/a> has exited Netflix<\/a>\u2018s action film Fast and Loose amid creative differences with star Will Smith<\/a>, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. <\/p>\n

\n\tFast and Loose\u00a0focuses on a crime boss who loses his memory after an attack and gradually learns that he was leading a double life as a CIA agent. Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, Chris Bremner and\u00a0Eric Pearson worked on the screenplay. Jon and Erich Hoeber wrote the original script after selling their pitch to Netflix.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe streamer is looking to begin production in 2026 and will be focused on attaching a filmmaker in the meantime. THR reported in October that Bay was set to helm<\/a> the project.<\/p>\n

\n\tFast and Loose has been in the works since before Smith\u2019s slap of Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars ceremony.\u00a0THR\u00a0previously reported that\u00a0David Leitch<\/a>\u00a0had\u00a0exited the project<\/a>\u00a0the week before the infamous Academy Awards telecast to start work on\u00a0The Fall Guy, the Ryan Gosling-Emily Blunt action-comedy feature that Universal released last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tProducers for\u00a0Fast and Loose\u00a0include Leitch and Kelly McCormick for 87North, along with Smith. Robert Simonds and Noah Fogelson serve as executive producers for STXfilms.<\/p>\n

\n\tBay previously directed Smith in the 1995 action-comedy\u00a0Bad Boys\u00a0and its 2003 sequel. Smith and Martin Lawrence most recently played their characters from the franchise in its latest sequel,\u00a0Bad Boys: Ride or Die, which Sony released in theaters last summer. That movie, having surpassed $400 million at the global box office, helped revive Smith\u2019s standing\u00a0as an in-demand film star<\/a>\u00a0following the Oscars fallout.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe filmmaker\u2019s most recent project as director was the 2022 Universal movie\u00a0Ambulance, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Also known for his work on the\u00a0Transformers\u00a0franchise, Bay previously helmed Netflix\u2019s Ryan Reynolds-led action flick\u00a06 Underground\u00a0that hit the streamer in 2019. Among Bay\u2019s planned projects include a feature adaptation of video game franchise OutRun with Sydney Sweeney<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline was first to report on Bay leaving Fast and Loose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Bay has exited Netflix\u2018s action film Fast and Loose amid creative differences with star Will Smith, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,42997,344,435,10221],"class_list":["post-51040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-michael-bay","tag-movies","tag-netflix","tag-will-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}