Audiences have not turned their again on Will Smith, who’s simply had an enormous comeback with Unhealthy Boys: Journey or Die incomes over $220 million in the course of the two first weeks following its launch. Now, he is becoming a member of one other high-profile sci-fi thriller at Sony Photos.
The information was dropped on June 18 by Deadline, which additionally identified that the undertaking, at the moment titled Resistor, is adapting Daniel Suarez’s guide Inflow.
The 2014 novel is a sci-fi thriller “that follows physicist Jon Grady and his staff, who’ve found a tool that may replicate gravity — a triumph that can revolutionize the sphere of physics and alter the long run.” The issue is that “a covert group generally known as the Bureau of Know-how Management” reveals as much as lock down the laboratory and seize the machine, additionally throwing Grady into “a nightmarish high-tech jail.” The objective of Grady and different prisoners is not solely to flee, but additionally to show the reality about technological developments which have been stored from humanity by a hidden enemy.
Deadline was additionally in a position to affirm the manufacturing firm Escape Artists had been “creating the undertaking for a while”, earlier than getting a script which excited executives and providing Smith the chance to be the automobile’s star. After all, a deal was closed shortly after Unhealthy Boys 4’s killer field workplace opening.
Smith has at all times had a penchant for science fiction, with blockbusters like Independence Day, I, Robotic, and 2019’s ill-fated Gemini Man amongst his most talked-about works in that house. Now, he is additionally connected to I Am Legend 2, which plans to (type of) carry his character again from the lifeless by constructing upon the (a lot better) alternate ending of the unique.
