Netflix had to sign the reunion of Michael Bay and Will Smith with the huge action film Fast and Loosebut it is now from the past.
Michael Bay and Will Smith, it started a little with a quasi-lightning with lightning with Bad Boys. The actor was already more or less a star when the film was released in 1995 (thanks to Prince of Bel-Air), but it was Michael Bay’s first film behind the camera at the time. And it is clear that the career of the two men has truly exploded thanks to the film, the filmmaker becoming a standard of Bourrin Hollywood action cinema and Will Smith, one of the major figures in the industry.
Smith and Bay had also put the cover in 2003 with Bad Boys 2continuation even more crazy and crazy than the first part that has become cult in the meantime. Except that since then, they had not ended up in the cinema. Suffice to say that in October 2024, when Netflix announced the launch of the action film Fast and Loose With Michael Bay to realize and Will Smith as a main actor, we were very looking forward to seeing that. Unfortunately, The idyll of yesteryear seems far away given the new announcements around the film.
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According to DeadlineMichael Bay abandoned the film overnight. In question: Creative disputes that are too important between the vision of the filmmaker and Will Smith on Fast and Loose. As a reminder, the film must follow a man (played by Will Smith) who wakes up in Tijuana without any memory. While he tries to pick up the pieces of his past, he learns that he lived two lives: one as a crime baron, the other as an agent of the CIA under cover.
A starting point that looks pretty like the style of Michael Bay, promising both a lot of action and a little comic lightness given the situation. But that’s where it would have stuck between him and Will Smith. Still according to Deadline, Bay wanted to put the action on the action part, while Smith wanted to focus on the comic part. A too important disagreement on the right approach to have that would have led Michael Bay to slam the door.
With this departure, Netflix would therefore be looking for a new directorjust to be able to hold the planned filming calendar, supposed to start next October. For his part, Michael Bay should not be unemployed, however, given the number of projects he has underway. The American is supposed to produce the adaptation of the action and science fiction thriller Saturation Pointsort of mixed between Annihilation et Apocalypse Now.
On the production side, it is linked to three film projects. First, an adaptation of real video games OutRun With Sydney Sweeney. Then, a more unexpected adaptation of the YouTube series Skibidi Toiletwhich stages an absurd war between human -headed toilets and humanoids equipped with electronic devices instead of the head (yes it’s weird). Finally, he would be in negotiations with Paramount to make a new film Transformers And thus resume orders from the franchise.
Suffice to say that Michael Bay should recover from his dispute with Will Smith quite quickly. In any case, we hope to be able to discover quickly We Are Storrorhis documentary film on the parkourwhose critical feedback is excellent but unfortunately he has no release date in France for the moment.