Oscar-winner Will Smith will star in the action thriller Supermax from director David Gordon Green for Amazon MGM Studios.
, a prison thriller about two FBI agents conducting a murder investigation in the world’s most maximum security prison. Despite the $70 million budget and Smith’s unchanged status as a movie star, which shows no signs of wear after slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, the film is allegedly going straight to Prime Video and will be directed by David Gordon Green.
Let’s try to sort through the logic of sending this one to streaming. For one thing, David Gordon Green is coming off the massive failure of his, bombed. Universal paid more than $400 million for the rights to the franchise and handed the reins to Green, who had just completed his Halloween trilogy for the studio. We suppose Universal, at least, was happy with that series.
We’re not sure we can say the same for anyone else. (Well, except Corey, the star of one of the great movies about a killer named Corey,, directed by Antoine Fuqua, released only months after Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, won an Oscar for , and retreated to his rap career. Perhaps there is some trepidation about Smith in non-franchise films.
His last theatrically released non-sequel or franchise film was, Ang Lee’s high-frame-rate sci-fi movie in which Smith squared off against a younger, more computer-generated version of himself. Before that movie bombed, he starred in, one of the great Oscar-bait misfires of the century. He also voiced the lead spy in disguise in the animated movie, released three years after The Slap, made more than $400 million.
, starring Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry, and Mark Ruffalo, cost $90 million and failed to recoup its budget. The quasi-reheated ’90s genre riff was pretty good, receiving strong reviews from critics and making a dent on Prime’s top 10 when it hit streaming.
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