With which film Will Smith returns to filming after the slap at the 2022 Oscars

While he waits for the public to forget the slap he gave Chris Rock at the Oscar ceremony two years ago, let time pass and he will be able to return to the Oscar ceremony four months before the supposed next premiere of Bad Boys 4, Will Smith He has a new project to act on.

The Oscar-winning actor for that fateful night King Richardwill be the protagonist of the action thriller Sugar banditswhich will become the most coveted project at the next European Film Market.

The crime film will be based on the novel Devils in exile by author Chuck Hogan. AGC Studios is financing the film, which does not yet have a director and will be sold at this month’s EFM Berlin, where the market began today, Thursday, in parallel with the Berlin Film Festival.

Hogan (author of the novel on which it is based Dangerous attractionOR The cityby and starring Ben Affleck, and from the screenplay by 1pm: The secret soldiers of Benghazi) wrote the screenplay for Sugar bandits adapting his 2010 novel. The book centers on Boston resident Neal Maven, who returns from the war in Iraq with few job prospects and teams up with other soldiers to rob local drug dealers.