Will Smith has signed on to star in Sugar Bandits, a new thriller movie that does not yet have a director.
Per Deadline, Smith will co-star in Sugar Bandits, which is currently searching for a buyer at the European Film Market in Berlin.
Joe Carnahan, who previously made 2011’s The Grey with Liam Neeson and 2021’s Copshop with Gerard Butler, was previously going to make Sugar Bandits for Universal Pictures; however, no director is currently attached to the film at this time.
What is Sugar Bandits about?
“[The movie] follows a former Special Forces soldier who joins an elite, vigilante squad aiming to wipe out the drug trade in Boston, but soon learns things are not what they seem,” Deadline’s description reads.
According to Deadline, Sugard Bandits will have an approximate $80 million budget. Sugar Bandits is based on a 2010 novel called The Devils in Exile by Chuck Hogan, who also wrote the screenplay for the movie.
Hogan previously co-created FX’s The Strain with Guillermo del Toro and wrote the screenplay for 2016’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, which was directed by Michael Bay.
Smith will produce the movie alongside Jon Mone, Stuart Ford, and Richard Abate. AGC Studios is fully financing Sugar Bandits, while Ryan Shimazaki is overseeing the project for Westbrook Studios.
Known for starring in movies such as 1996’s Independence Day, 1997’s Men in Black, 2007’s I Am Legend, 2016’s Suicide Squad, and more, Smith recently won a Best Actor Academy Award for his role in 2021’s King Richard. Following that, he starred in 2022’s Emancipation, while he’s now attached to star in a fourth film in the Bad Boys franchise that’s being directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah.
Sugar Bandits does not yet have an official release date.
