Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not a big\u00a0mystery why Will Smith\u2019s latest Netflix movie,\u00a0Fast And Loose, has had some trouble getting off the ground over the last three years. First, potential director David Leitch backed away from the project in early 2022, deciding to pursue his project The Fall Guy<\/a> instead. This turned out to be a pretty lucky decision for Leitch, since he made the choice just a week ahead of the 94th Academy Awards, during which Smith hopped up on stage and slapped the project straight into Netflix\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s sleep on this for a minute\u201d pile<\/a>. It took two years\u2014and the success of Bad Boys: Ride Or Die<\/a>\u2014to get the streamer feeling enthusiastic again, now<\/a> with Smith\u2019s original Bad Boys\u00a0director Michael Bay attached. Now, though, we have to ask: Is this thing genuinely cursed, or is it just the Will Smith of it all? Because THR reports<\/a> that Bay has now dropped out of the film, citing \u201ccreative differences\u201d with his star.<\/p>\n It\u2019s worth noting that the premise for the film definitely\u00a0sounds\u00a0like a Will Smith Netflix movie\u2014Bright<\/a>! Still technically available to stream!\u2014with the actor playing \u201ca crime boss who loses his memory after an attack and gradually learns that he was leading a double life as a CIA agent.\u201d It\u2019s not clear how much room there even is in that idea for creative differences to crop up, but Bay and Smith apparently found them. (Although Bay has a producing credit on the later\u00a0Bad Boys\u00a0films, he last directed Smith in 2003\u2019s\u00a0Bad Boys II.) The script itself has been credited to Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, Chris Bremner (who worked on the last two Bad Boys movie), and Marvel guy Eric Pearson, from a script originally sold to Netflix by the Hoebers. (Who, by dint of writing\u00a0Battleship,\u00a0The Meg,\u00a0RED, and more, were really out there penning Netflix-style movies<\/a> before Netflix-style movies were even a thing.)<\/p>\n Deadline\u00a0offers up<\/a> at least a bit of speculation on where the split between Smith and Bay came from: The director reportedly wanted to amplify the movie\u2019s action elements, while Smith wanted to play up its comedic aspects. Now, of course, nobody gets anything\u2014at least until Netflix lures a third director to get this possibly cursed effort to jumpstart Smith\u2019s stalled public rehabilitation off the ground.<\/p>\n Will Smith had to get studio permission to kill the dog in I Am Legend<\/a>At least Will Smith can now rap about The Slap<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste It\u2019s not a big\u00a0mystery why Will Smith\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-53335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53335","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=53335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}