Will Smith And Michael Bay to Re-team for Netflix Action Film “Fast and Loose”
Will Smith and Michael Bay are reuniting for another breathless action movie.
Smith and Bay are in talks to reteam for the Netflix actioner Fast and Loose. Bay will direct Smith in a movie about a crime boss suffering from amnesia after an attack. The catch? This underworld kingpin slowly starts to learn that he’s actually a CIA agent. The script comes from Eric Pearson, Chris Bremmer, Jon Hoeber, and Erich Hoeber. Deadline was the first to scoop the story.
The film was initially slated to be helmed by another director with major action chops—David Leitch—but Leitch ultimately left the project to work on his ode to stunt performers, The Fall Guy, with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt.
Smith and Bay go way back—they first collaborated on the 1995 action-comedy Bad Boys, in which Smith joined Martin Lawrence as a pair of haggling, heroic Miami cops. Smith and Lawrence have recently reprised the character, with last year’s Bad Boys: Ride or Die being their most recent effort.
Ride or Die was a hit, and Smith’s return from the infamous Oscars slap heard around the world in 2022, the year he won his first Oscar for his performance in 2021’s King Richard. After Ride or Die, Smith was in talks to star in the sci-fi feature Resistor, based on novelist Daniel Suarez’s 2014 book “Influx” for Sony, which follows physicist Jon Grady after he and his team discover a device that can reflect gravity that eventually falls into the wrong hands, but has exited the project. Smith was also planning to star in Sguar Bandits, a Boston-set crime thriller from Sicario: Day of the Soldado filmmaker Stefano Sollima, which he and his production company, Westbrook, are still looking to produce.
Bay has taken a brief break from directing. His last time behind the camera was for Universal’s potent, tightly wound film Ambulance, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. He is, of course, famous for bringing the world of Transformers to the big screen back in 2007, jumpstarting a mega-franchise that includes seven live-action features and this year’s critically acclaimed animated film Transformers: One.
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Featured image: L-r: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO – MAY 31: Will Smith poses during a photoshoot for the movie ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ at Angel de la Independencia on May 31, 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images). NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 17: Michael Bay attends the “Transformers One” premiere on September 17, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
