Will Smith is learning the hard way that there are consequences for assaulting a man on national television. Netflix and Sony have decided not to get jiggy with a couple of the actor’s new projects in the wake of his unhinged moment where he slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars for making a bald joke about his wife Jada.
The Hollywood Reporter said Netflix was moving fast on a movie called “Fast and Loose” until this past week, and now they’ve hit the brakes on the project.
Sony did the same thing with “Bad Boys 4. Anyone unlucky enough to have sat through Bad Boys 3 owes a big thank you to Sony for sparing us from another mailed-in re-tread of a film concept that was fresh 27 years ago. Reports say that the studio had already sent Smith 40 pages of the film’s script before the Oscars.
It’s been quite a week for Smith. If you’re having a hard time keeping track of whom he’s slapped or apologized to, he resigned from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on Friday.
If anyone in Hollywood needs a break right now, it’s Will Smith’s crisis PR team. The amount of content this group has cranked out over the past seven days is impressive, with one apology after the next flowing into the inboxes of entertainment media outlets.
On Friday, more sorries from Will, who seems to feel just terrible about his behavior officially crossing over from weird/creepy to borderline criminal.
“The list of those I have hurt is long and includes Chris, his family, many of my dear friends and loved ones, all those in attendance, and global audiences at home.”
Add to that list anyone planning on working on his two films that just got put on the back shelf.
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