After scoring the biggest hit of his career this year with Disney’s Aladdin, Will Smith is set to reunite with his Concussion director Peter Landesman for The Council, a crime drama set up at Netflix.
The Council will tell the true story of an African-American crime syndicate who ruled Harlem in the 1970s and 80s, with Smith taking on the role of crime lord Nicky Barnes, the “king” of the seven-man council who dreamed of establishing a self-sufficient and self-policing African American city-state, funded by international drug trafficking.
As well as starring, Smith will produce the film through his Overbrook Entertainment banner, along with Matt Jackson of Jackson Pictures and Jason Essex of Anonymous Nobodies.
Smith will next be seen on the big screen this October in the action thriller Gemini Man, and follows that up with the animated spy comedy Spies in Disguise in December and buddy action comedy sequel Bad Boys for Life in January 2020.
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