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Oscar winner Will Smith is attached to star in Sugar Bandits, which is one of the buzziest packages at the EFM market this week in Berlin.
The market’s biggest budget project — we hear it’s in the $80M range — is understood to follow a former Special Forces solider who joins an elite, vigilante squad aiming to wipe out the drug trade in Boston, but soon learns things are not what they seem
Smith won’t play the lead but will co-star in the movie, we understand. However, it’s not often a Will Smith movie becomes available in the indie market-place so there’s already buzz from buyers about the project who have positive things to say about the script, even if a director has yet to be attached.
The last Will Smith movie to hit the market was Emancipation and that sold in a massive auction to Apple. He is in post on Sony’s Bad Boys 4. This is the first major movie announced in the independent market for Smith since his Oscar ceremony ‘moment’ back in 2022.
Smith is represented by CAA. Hogan is represented by WME and 3 Arts Entertainment
The market’s biggest budget project — we hear it’s in the $80M range — is understood to follow a former Special Forces solider who joins an elite, vigilante squad aiming to wipe out the drug trade in Boston, but soon learns things are not what they seem
Smith won’t play the lead but will co-star in the movie, we understand. However, it’s not often a Will Smith movie becomes available in the indie market-place so there’s already buzz from buyers about the project who have positive things to say about the script, even if a director has yet to be attached.
The last Will Smith movie to hit the market was Emancipation and that sold in a massive auction to Apple. He is in post on Sony’s Bad Boys 4. This is the first major movie announced in the independent market for Smith since his Oscar ceremony ‘moment’ back in 2022.
Smith is represented by CAA. Hogan is represented by WME and 3 Arts Entertainment
Will Smith Attached To Star In Action Movie ‘Sugar Bandits’ With Westbrook Producing — AGC Studios & CAA Media Finance Launching Hot EFM Package
The big-budget action movie will see a former Special Forces solider join an elite, vigilante squad aiming to wipe out the drug trade in Boston.
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