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Will Bright be Will Smith’s tick­et back to the top?

27 Feb 2017

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A tiny teas­er for David Ayer’s fantasy/​cop flick hybrid has dropped.

Look­ing for­ward to Decem­ber 2017, he re-teams with direc­tor David Ayer (who direct­ed Smith in Sui­cide Squad) for Bright, an intrigu­ing-look­ing hard­boiled polici­er which takes place in a world pop­u­lat­ed by orcs, gob­lins and ban­shees. The film looks a lit­tle like a mash-up of some of Ayer’s ear­li­er work, draw­ing on the dirty cops of 2012’s End of Watch and the made-up mon­ster freaks of Sui­cide Squad.

This short teas­er gives away lit­tle bar the visu­al con­text, and it’s hard to tell whether this will be Smith’s tri­umphant bounce-back moment. Or, will a bounce-back even be pos­si­ble con­sid­er­ing the film will be pre­mier­ing on a VOD plat­form and not sub­ject to tra­di­tion­al met­rics of success?

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Fol­low­ing on from the news that Mar­tin Scorsese’s forth­com­ing gang­ster epic, The Irish­man, will too be a Net­flix exclu­sive, this does cement the platform’s inten­tion to show­cas­ing high-end, stu­dio-style enter­tain­ment and not just remain­ing a place to see films that work best in a home enter­tain­ment set­ting. This is already shap­ing up to be very an inter­est­ing year for the stream­ing service.

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