Will Smith has a film dominating cinemas with Bad Boys: Ride or Ride, and now he’s gearing up for another big-budget blockbuster.
Deadline reports Sony’s Resistor has found its star with Smith joining the project, which he’ll produce through Westbrook. Zak Olkewicz wrote the first script draft, and Eric Warren Singer penned the latest draft. It’s based on bestselling author Daniel Suarez’s novel Influx, but the specific plot details for Resistor are being kept secret.
The novel follows physicist Jon Grady and his team, who have discovered a device that can reflect gravity—a triumph that will revolutionize the field of physics and change the future. But instead of acclaim, Grady’s lab is locked down by a covert organization called the Bureau of Technology Control. The bureau’s mission is to suppress the truth of sudden technological progress and prevent the social upheaval it would trigger. Because the future is already here, and its rewards are only for a select few. When Grady refuses to join the BTC, he’s thrown into a nightmarish high-tech prison housing other doomed rebel intellects. Now, as the only hope to usher humanity out of its artificial dark age, Grady and his fellow prisoners must try to expose the secrets of an unimaginable enemy—one that wields a technological advantage half a century in the making.
While the “controversial” few years for Will Smith left some wondering about his future, his box office power shut down most comments. Bad Boys: Ride or Die opened with a $100 million-plus global opening and is proving to have steady legs this summer. He’s also attached for an I Am Legend sequel and is reportedly developing a new A.I.-themed series.
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No director is currently attached to Resistor, but meetings are set to ramp up with Smith’s casting.
