Will Smith will play an Iraq war veteran in the film 'Sugar Bandits'

Will Smith to play Iraq war veteran (2003-2011) in a thriller film titled 'Sugar Bandits', which will be presented to buyers at the next edition of the European Film Market (EFM) that will take place between this Thursday and the 21st February within the framework of the Berlinale.

According to information from specialized media such as Deadline and Variety, it is expected that the actor will not be the protagonist of the film, which is produced by Will Smith himself. and Jon Mone ('Battleship') through Westbrook Studios.

The plot is based on the novel 'Devils in Exile', by American writer Chuck Hogan, which is about an Iraq war veteran who joins an elite squad to fight drug trafficking in Boston.

Hogan, who has been a screenwriter for films such as 'The Town' (2010) and the series 'The Strain' (2014) – in which he shared credits with Mexican director Guillermo del Toro – also wrote the script for the film, which will have an approximate budget of 80 million dollars.

The project does not yet have a director assigned and was released to the independent market. However, the film had originally been announced in 2013 by Universal Studios, with Joe Carnahan ('The Blacklist') as director.

The last film he participated in Will Smith was 'Emancipation', directed by Antoine Fuqua and distributed by Apple.

Will Smith also has the fourth film in the 'Bad Boys' saga coming up, from Sony, whose recordings were affected by the strike that the writers and screenwriters carried out during 2023, as well as the second part of 'I Am Legend', which is scheduled to co-star Michael B. Jordan.

This will be the actor's return to the big screen, who in 2022 starred at the 94th Oscars after slapping comedian Chris Rock, who during the award ceremony made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith's alopecia.

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