{"id":65475,"date":"2025-08-07T16:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/65475\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T16:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:17:05","slug":"michael-bay-exits-will-smith-netflix-action-film-fast-and-loose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/65475\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bay Exits Will Smith Netflix Action Film &#8216;Fast And Loose&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> is back out looking for a director for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/fast-and-loose\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fast-and-loose\" data-tag=\"fast-and-loose\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fast and Loose<\/a>, after <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/michael-bay\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-bay\" data-tag=\"michael-bay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Bay<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/will-smith\/\" id=\"auto-tag_will-smith\" data-tag=\"will-smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Smith<\/a> were unable to bridge creative differences and Bay shook loose of the film Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFast and Loose will star Smith as a man who wakes up in Tijuana with no memories. As he pieces together his past, he learns he\u2019s been living two lives: one as a crime kingpin and the other as an undercover CIA agent. The script by Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber,\u00a0Chris Bremner and\u00a0Eric Pearson. The film has action as well as comic moments, but Deadline hears Bay wanted more emphasis on the former while Smith wanted to lean into the latter. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated Stories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/the-batman-part-ii-start-date-superman-sequel-1236480458\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/jimleebatmansuperman-e1754568388775.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Lee DC Comics Batnan Superman\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/aubrey-plaza-joins-heidi-fleiss-biopic-pinky-promise-1236480098\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754583425_902_Aubrey-Plaza-and-Heidi-Fleiss.jpg\" alt=\"Aubrey Plaza and Heidi Fleiss\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThey are looking to shoot in October, and Netflix will lock in a new filmmaker to keep things on track. Bay has plenty else to do. He is discussing with Paramount a return to the Transformers fold with a new version of that tentpole, and he\u2019s also percolating at Universal OutRun, an adaptation of the video game that is a star vehicle for Sydney Sweeney. Jayson Rothwell is scripting with Bay and Brad Fuller producing with Sweeney. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA reunion between Bay and Smith was significant because their stars launched together with 1995\u2019s Bad Boys. That film was Bay\u2019s film directing debut, and it was the vehicle that provided first glimpse of how well Smith would fare as a charismatic action star.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFast and Loose is being produced by Smith\u2019s Westbrook Studios and Kelly McCormick and David Leitch for 87North. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is back out looking for a director for Fast and Loose, after Michael Bay and Will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,48189,48190,206,217,4277],"class_list":["post-65475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-fast-and-loose","tag-michael-bay","tag-movies","tag-netflix","tag-will-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}