Will Smith will return to the big screen thanks to the fourth chapter of bad guyswhich will be his first big project since the controversial slap he gave comedian Chris Rock during the Oscars ceremony last year.
“I have an ad… They better stop scrolling. Seriously,” she revealed in a video posted to her Instagram account. In that announcement on the fourth part of this action comedy also appears his co-star, Martin Lawrence, who in the images receives the Oscar-winning actor at his home while saying: “It’s about time, right?”
The new film is in the early stages of pre-production at the Sony Pictures studio and now the directors of the third film -Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah- will be working together again, according to specialized media. Expiration.
More details on the plot of the fourth part of this saga are still unknown, but what is known is that Smith and Lawrence will once again play detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett, respectively, in their new adventures in Miami. The previous films of bad guys They were released in 1995, 2003 and 2020 and the franchise has grossed over $840 million worldwide.
Indeed, the third part grossed 204 million in the US alone and ended up being the highest-grossing film of 2020 before closing theaters in mid-March due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Bad memories
Smith was expelled from the Hollywood Academy for the next ten years after he slapped Rock, who joked about his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith’s hair loss problems, during the 94th Academy Awards. An edition in which, paradoxically, he was awarded for his interpretation of him in King Richard with the statuette of best actor, the first of his career.
The film transcended mere biopic, or the American dream. Few know the commitment, tenacity, self-confidence and basically the passion that Richard Williams put into training and managing two of his daughters, Venus and Serena. What these athletes achieved in the world of professional tennis, first as juniors, which is what the film emphasizes the most, would be like a fairy tale.
Smith’s appearance as an actor was severely detracted from the incident and he only made his acting debut last year emancipation (Apple TV+), a drama in which he played a slave during the American Revolutionary War.
Antoine Fuqua’s film sees the actor in the role of the famous “Flogged Peter”, the slave who suffers racist violence. And if it weren’t for Chris Rock’s slap, Will Smith would surely have been very close to getting another Oscar nomination. In the film, his character is brutally abused and tortured.
The actor has been remorseful and has publicly apologized to Rock on several occasions as he tries to refocus a career that could be resurrected for good with the acclaimed saga. bad guys.
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Source: Clarin
