LOS ANGELES — Hollywood star Will Smith is glad that January 2025 finally came
to an end. The actor also shared that for him 2025 will start with February 1.
The actor recently took to his Instagram, and shared a note
wishing everyone a Happy New Year. He wrote, “I've decided that January Sucked!
And February 1 is my actual New Year's Day. So... HAPPY NEW YEAR'S, EVERYBODY
(sic)”.
2025 will also mark three years since the infamous Oscar
Slapgate when the actor slapped comic artist and actor Chris Rock across his
face. Chris Rock, who hosted the 94th Academy Awards on March 27, 2022,
allegedly had made a joke about Will Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith’s
alopecia condition.
Meanwhile, last year, it was reported that Will Smith, and
director Michael Bay, who rocked the box-office with their movie ‘Bad Boys’,
are planning to reunite with yet another movie.
The director was said to be in negotiations to direct the
action flick ‘Fast and Loose’ for the streaming giant Netflix, with Smith set
to star, reports ‘Variety’.
‘Fast and Loose’ follows the story of a man who wakes up in
Tijuana with no memories. As he pieces together his past, he learns he’s been
living two lives: one as a crime kingpin and the other as an undercover CIA
agent.
As per ‘Variety’, Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, Chris Bremner
and Eric Pearson have penned the script. Producers include Smith, Kelly
McCormick and David Leitch for 87North. Co-president and head of motion
pictures Jon Mone and Ryan Shimazaki are in negotiations to produce for
Westbrook Studios and James Lassiter.
Executive producers are Robert Simonds and Noah Fogelson for
STXfilms, and Barry Waldman.
Bay and Smith first teamed up for 1995’s ‘Bad Boys’, which
served as Bay’s feature directorial debut. The film was a commercial success
and spawned three sequels, ‘Bad Boys II’, ‘Bad Boys for Life’ and ‘Bad Boys:
Ride or Die’.
Smith earned an Oscar in 2021 for his role as Richard
Williams in ‘King Richard’. In 2022, he starred in Apple’s ‘Emancipation’. He’s
next set to appear in Sony Pictures’ sci-fi thriller ‘Resistor’, based on
Daniel Suarez’s 2014 novel ‘Influx’.
Michael Bay, whose credits include the ‘Transformers’
franchise and ‘Pearl Harbor’, is in talks to develop the animated internet meme
‘Skibidi Toilet’ for TV and film with former Paramount Pictures president Adam
Goodman. His first docuseries, ‘Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the Savior’.