After the success of Bad Boys: Ride or Die reestablished Will Smith as a box office attraction, ABC Audio has confirmed that Sony Pictures has finalised its next film for the Academy Award-winning actor.
Smith is attached to Register, an adaptation of Daniel Suarez’s bestselling cyber thriller Influx.
The studio said the screenplay was written by Bullet Train veteran Jack Olkewicz; and Oscar-nominated American Hustle and Top Gun: Maverick screenwriter Eric Singer wrote the most recent draft.
The plot has been kept secret, but Suarez’s book centers on a particle physicist who discovers a technological breakthrough that defies gravity, but finds himself the target of a shadowy organization called the Bureau of Technology Control.
Smith is also co-producing the project through his company Westbrook, alongside Todd Black, with whom he worked on Seven Pounds, The Pursuit of Happiness and Emancipation through Black’s Escape Artists shingle.
Bad Boys: Ride or Die has grossed $215.5 million globally in its first 10 days of release, according to Sony Pictures.
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