{"id":583936,"date":"2026-05-14T17:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/583936\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:07:10","slug":"will-smith-to-star-in-supermaxamazon-lands-rights-in-70-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/583936\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith to Star in Supermax,&#8217;Amazon Lands Rights in $70 Million Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/will-smith\/\" id=\"auto-tag_will-smith\" data-tag=\"will-smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Smith<\/a> is slated to star in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/supermax\/\" id=\"auto-tag_supermax\" data-tag=\"supermax\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supermax<\/a>,\u201d an action thriller directed by \u201cHalloween\u201d filmmaker David Gordon Green. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAmazon MGM acquired the worldwide rights to the movie from Miramax for $70 million, according to Deadline, which broke the news of the deal. The studio won\u2019t be putting \u201cSupermax\u201d in theaters and will instead drop the film directly on Prime Video on a yet-to-be-determined date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSmith hasn\u2019t appeared onscreen since\u00a02024\u2019s \u201cBad Boys: Ride or Die,\u201d which marked the actor\u2019s first major film since he assaulted Chris Rock on stage at the 2022 Academy Awards. \u201cBad Boys 4\u201d was a hit with $404 million worldwide, a sign that audiences hadn\u2019t soured on Smith, at least when he\u2019s anchoring a time-tested franchise. He hasn\u2019t been cast in an original movie since the incident at the Oscars. At least one other Hollywood studio appears to be warming to working with Smith after he tarnished his reputation; Westbrook, the entertainment company he founded with Jada Pinkett Smith, recently signed a first-look deal with Paramount to make franchise films.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cSupermax\u201d is described as a \u201cpropulsive and twist-laden action thriller\u201d about two FBI agents who are investigating a murder that\u2019s taken place in the world\u2019s most secure prison. (Well, not anymore?) Smith will play a character named Rex. Additional casting is underway with plans to start production in mid-August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDavid Weil and David J. Rosen, whose small screen credits include \u201cHunters\u201d and \u201cInvasion,\u201d wrote the screenplay. Weil and Rosen will also serve as executive producers, alongside associate producer Natalie Weil. Producers include Alex Heineman and Andrew Rona of The Picture Company and Smith and Adam Fishbach will produce for Smith\u2019s company Westbrook. Miramax CEO Jonathan Glickman, president of film Alexandra Loewy, COO Thom Zadra, and senior VP Spencer Ela are attached as executive producers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Smith is slated to star in \u201cSupermax,\u201d an action thriller directed by \u201cHalloween\u201d filmmaker David Gordon Green.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,199456,56,54,55,32927],"class_list":["post-583936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-supermax","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-will-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}