Netflix and Sony pause Will Smith projects after he slapped Chris Rock at Oscars
Netflix was in the process of finding a new director for “Fast and Loose,” after David Leitch withdrew from the project ahead of the Academy Awards, THR said. Smith was to play a crime boss with a memory problem.
Sony is also putting the brakes on “Bad Boys 4,” which had been gearing up ahead of the awards show. The slave drama “Will Smith hits Chris Rock at the Oscars on March 27.
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