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American actor, Will Smith has snagged a second movie role post the slap incident that was heard around the world.
Titled Resistor, the movie to be produced by Sony and Escape Artists is an adaptation of Daniel Suarez's 2014 book Influx, has Eric Warren Singer (Top Gun: Maverick, American Hustle) as screenwriter.
According to Giant Freaking Robot, while Sony is keeping hush on details of the plot, Smith is expected to play the protagonist in Suarez's novel, Jon Grady.
A physicist, Grady and his team of researchers stumble upon an incredible world-changing device that can reflect gravity. The scientists, however, hit a major obstacle when a government group known as the Bureau of Technology Control attempts to shut down their findings and put an end to their work. Left with only two difficult options, to either join forces with the Bureau or face harsh punishment, takes the latter, and it's while there in the Bureau's futuristic top clearance facility that he plots with fellow prisoners to overthrow and make public its secrets.
Smith will find himself at home having played similar sci-fi roles like Men In Black, I-Robot, I Am Legend in the past.
Although it had been earlier reported that the movie's production company, Escape Artists has been trying to get the project off the ground for a while, it wasn't until the smashing box office success of Bad Boys: Ride or Die, the latest installment of the Bad Boys franchise that they were able to get the ball rolling. Not to mention.
Resistor is the second film the actor has casted in (after Antoine Fuqua's Emancipation) following his embarrassing moment at the 2022 Oscars when he slapped fellow actor and comedian, Chris Rock, which saw production companies give the actor a wide berth, and Smith's career suffer a downturn.
Presently, Smith is the only name attached to the movie, and is yet to get a release date.
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