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"page_snippet": "Will Smith. Producer: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Willard Carroll "Will" Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in ...Will Smith. Producer: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Willard Carroll \"Will\" Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him \"the most powerful actor in Hollywood\". Known for: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Men in Black, I Am Legend [on his first season of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)] \"I was trying so hard. I would memorize the entire script, then I'd be lipping everybody's lines while they were talking. When I watch those episodes, it's disgusting. My performances were horrible.\" ... Keep track of how much of Will Smith\u2019s work you have seen. Go to your list. Willard Carroll \"Will\" Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him \"the most powerful actor in Hollywood\". Smith has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won four Grammy Awards.",
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Willard Carroll "Will" Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywood". Smith has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won four Grammy Awards.
In the late 1980s, Smith achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince. In 1990, his popularity increased dramatically when he starred in the popular television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The show ran for six seasons (1990-96) on NBC and has been syndicated consistently on various networks since then. After the series ended, Smith moved from television to film, and ultimately starred in numerous blockbuster films. He is the only actor to have eight consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office, eleven consecutive films gross over $150 million internationally, and eight consecutive films in which he starred open at the number one spot in the domestic box office tally.
Smith is ranked as the most bankable star worldwide by Forbes. As of 2014, 17 of the 21 films in which he has had leading roles have accumulated worldwide gross earnings of over $100 million each, five taking in over $500 million each in global box office receipts. As of 2014, his films have grossed $6.6 billion at the global box office. He has received Best Actor Oscar nominations for Ali and The Pursuit of Happyness.
Smith was born in West Philadelphia, the son of Caroline (Bright), a Philadelphia school board administrator, and Willard Carroll Smith, Sr., a refrigeration engineer. He grew up in West Philadelphia's Wynnefield neighborhood, and was raised Baptist. He has three siblings, sister Pamela, who is four years older, and twins Harry and Ellen, who are three years younger. Smith attended Our Lady of Lourdes, a private Catholic elementary school in Philadelphia. His parents separated when he was 13, but did not actually divorce until around 2000.
Smith attended Overbrook High School. Though widely reported, it is untrue that Smith turned down a scholarship to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); he never applied to college because he "wanted to rap." Smith says he was admitted to a "pre-engineering [summer] program" at MIT for high school students, but he did not attend. According to Smith, "My mother, who worked for the School Board of Philadelphia, had a friend who was the admissions officer at MIT. I had pretty high SAT scores and they needed black kids, so I probably could have gotten in. But I had no intention of going to college."
Smith started as the MC of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, with his childhood friend Jeffrey "DJ Jazzy Jeff" Townes as producer, as well as Ready Rock C (Clarence Holmes) as the human beat box. The trio was known for performing humorous, radio-friendly songs, most notably "Parents Just Don't Understand" and "Summertime". They gained critical acclaim and won the first Grammy awarded in the Rap category (1988).
Smith spent money freely around 1988 and 1989 and underpaid his income taxes. The Internal Revenue Service eventually assessed a $2.8 million tax debt against Smith, took many of his possessions, and garnished his income. Smith was nearly bankrupt in 1990, when the NBC television network signed him to a contract and built a sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, around him.
The show was successful and began his acting career. Smith set for himself the goal of becoming "the biggest movie star in the world", studying box office successes' common characteristics.
\nSmith's first major roles were in the drama Six Degrees of Separation (1993) and the action film Bad Boys (1995) in which he starred opposite Martin Lawrence.
In 1996, Smith starred as part of an ensemble cast in Roland Emmerich's Independence Day. The film was a massive blockbuster, becoming the second highest grossing film in history at the time and establishing Smith as a prime box office draw. He later struck gold again in the summer of 1997 alongside Tommy Lee Jones in the summer hit Men in Black playing Agent J. In 1998, Smith starred with Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State.
He turned down the role of Neo in The Matrix in favor of Wild Wild West (1999). Despite the disappointment of Wild Wild West, Smith has said that he harbors no regrets about his decision, asserting that Keanu Reeves's performance as Neo was superior to what Smith himself would have achieved, although in interviews subsequent to the release of Wild Wild West he stated that he "made a mistake on Wild Wild West. That could have been better."
In 2005, Smith was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for attending three premieres in a 24-hour time span.
He has planned to star in a feature film remake of the television series It Takes a Thief.
On December 10, 2007, Smith was honored at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. Smith left an imprint of his hands and feet outside the world-renowned theater in front of many fans. Later that month, Smith starred in the film I Am Legend, released December 14, 2007. Despite marginally positive reviews, its opening was the largest ever for a film released in the United States during December. Smith himself has said that he considers the film to be "aggressively unique". A reviewer said that the film's commercial success "cemented [Smith's] standing as the number one box office draw in Hollywood." On December 1, 2008, TV Guide reported that Smith was selected as one of America's top ten most fascinating people of 2008 for a Barbara Walters ABC special that aired on December 4, 2008.
In 2008 Smith was reported to be developing a film entitled The Last Pharaoh, in which he would be starring as Taharqa. It was in 2008 that Smith starred in the superhero movie Hancock.
Men in Black III opened on May 25, 2012 with Smith again reprising his role as Agent J. This was his first major starring role in four years.
On August 19, 2011, it was announced that Smith had returned to the studio with producer La Mar Edwards to work on his fifth studio album. Edwards has worked with artists such as T.I., Chris Brown, and Game. Smith's most recent studio album, Lost and Found, was released in 2005.
Smith and his son Jaden played father and son in two productions: the 2006 biographical drama The Pursuit of Happyness, and the science fiction film After Earth, which was released on May 31, 2013.
Smith starred opposite Margot Robbie in the romance drama Focus. He played Nicky Spurgeon, a veteran con artist who takes a young, attractive woman under his wing. Focus was released on February 27, 2015. Smith was set to star in the Sci-Fic thriller Brilliance, an adaptation of Marcus Sakey's novel of the same name scripted by Jurassic Park writer David Koepp. But he left the project.
Smith played Dr. Bennet Omalu of the Brain Injury Research Institute in the sports-drama Concussion, who became the first person to discover chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in a football player's brain. CTE is a degenerative disease caused by severe trauma to the head that can be discovered only after death. Smith's involvement is mostly due to his last-minute exit from the Sci-Fi thriller-drama Brilliance. Concussion was directed by Peter Landesman and-bead filmed in Pittsburgh, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. It received $14.4 million in film tax credits from Pennsylvania. Principal photography started on October 27, 2014. Actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw played his wife. Omalu served as a consultant.
As of November 2015, Smith is set to star in the independent drama Collateral Beauty, which will be directed by David Frankel. Smith will play a New York advertising executive who succumbs to an deep depression after a personal tragedy.
Nobel Peace Prize Concert December 11, 2009, in Oslo, Norway: Smith with wife Jada and children Jaden and Willow\nSmith married Sheree Zampino in 1992. They had one son, Trey Smith, born on November 11, 1992, and divorced in 1995. Trey appeared in his father's music video for the 1998 single "Just the Two of Us". He also acted in two episodes of the sitcom All of Us, and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and on the David Blaine: Real or Magic TV special.
Smith married actress Jada Koren Pinkett in 1997. Together they have two children: Jaden Christopher Syre Smith (born 1998), his co-star in The Pursuit of Happyness and After Earth, and Willow Camille Reign Smith (born 2000), who appeared as his daughter in I Am Legend. Smith and his brother Harry own Treyball Development Inc., a Beverly Hills-based company named after Trey. Smith and his family reside in Los Angeles, California.
Smith was consistently listed in Fortune Magazine's "Richest 40" list of the forty wealthiest Americans under the age of 40.
[on his first season of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)] "I was trying so hard. I would\nmemorize the entire script, then I'd be lipping everybody's lines while\nthey were talking. When I watch those episodes, it's disgusting. My\nperformances were horrible."
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"page_snippet": "Here's every project Will Smith has in the works since the Chris Rock slap incident got him banned from the Oscars.\u201cWhat Matheson was talking about was that man\u2019s time on the planet as the dominant species had come to an end. That\u2019s a really interesting thing we\u2019re going to get to explore.\u201d \u00b7 Goldsman added, \u201cThere will be a little more fidelity to the original text.\u201d \u00b7 Smith and Kevin Hart are set to star in and produce a remake of \u201cPlanes, Trains, and Automobiles\u201d about two travelers who are forced into friendship due to a series of mishaps. \u201cWe trace back to the original [Richard] Matheson book, and the alternate ending as opposed to the released ending in the original film,\u201d Goldsman said of the Manhattan-based post-apocalyptic film. \u201cWhat Matheson was talking about was that man\u2019s time on the planet as the dominant species had come to an end. That\u2019s a really interesting thing we\u2019re going to get to explore.\u201d The \u201cKing Richard\u201d star made history at the 2022 Academy Awards for slapping presenter Chris Rock onstage following a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith\u2019s shaved head. Rock addressed Smith\u2019s attack, clarifying that he does not consider himself to be a \u201cvictim\u201d but that he was \u201churt\u201d by Smith\u2019s actions. While Smith later apologized to Rock and called the whole evening \u201cfuzzy\u201d in his memory, Hollywood remained divided over whether Smith\u2019s behavior should boot him from the industry as a whole. Rumors swirled that Apple TV+ was delaying the release of Antoine Fuqua\u2019s slave biopic \u201cEmancipation\u201d following the Oscars slap, and that Netflix paused development on multiple Smith-fronted films.",
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Will Smith may be banned from the Oscars until 2032, but the Best Actor winner isn’t slowing down his career any time soon.
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The “King Richard” star made history at the 2022 Academy Awards for slapping presenter Chris Rock onstage following a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. Rock addressed Smith\u2019s attack, clarifying that he does not consider himself to be a \u201cvictim\u201d\u00a0but that he was \u201churt\u201d by Smith\u2019s actions.
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While Smith later apologized to Rock and called the whole evening “fuzzy” in his memory, Hollywood remained divided over whether Smith’s behavior should boot him from the industry as a whole. Rumors swirled that Apple TV+ was delaying the release of Antoine Fuqua’s slave biopic “Emancipation” following the Oscars slap, and that Netflix paused development on multiple Smith-fronted films. However, “Emancipation” finally released in late 2022 \u2014 even if to little fanfare.
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“I completely understand \u2014 if someone is not ready, I would absolutely respect that and allow them their space to not be ready,” Smith said while promoting “Emancipation,” which was released in theaters in December 2022. “My deepest concern is my team \u2013 Antoine has done what I think is the greatest work of his entire career.”
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Smith continued, “The people on this team have done some of the best work of their entire careers, and my deepest hope is that my actions don\u2019t penalize my team. At this point, that\u2019s what I\u2019m working for. I\u2019m hoping that the material \u2013 the power of the film, the timeliness of the story \u2013 I\u2019m hoping that the good that can be done would open people\u2019s hearts at a minimum to see and recognize and support the incredible artists in and around this film.”
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And Smith has plenty more films in the works, ranging from “Bad Boys 4” to “I Am Legend 2.” Keep scrolling to see all of Smith’s upcoming projects one year after the “Oscars slap.”
Apple TV+’s onetime Oscar hopeful “Emancipation” made little impact upon release in theaters and on the streamer — and was ultimately forgotten by awards season after debuting in December 2022. Despite rumblings that Smith could be a consecutive Best Actor contender again on the heels of “King Richard,” IndieWire’s David Ehrlich called the biopic a “B-movie with delusions of grandeur.”
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“By virtue of its release date, subject matter, and star power alone, ‘Emancipation’ was created to be seen through the same narrow lens of the system that produced it, and The Slap — an existential threat to any feature so dependent upon the Oscars for market enthusiasm — ironically did even more to yoke the movie into Hollywood’s annual horse race at its own expense,” Ehrlich wrote.
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He continued in the review, “For his part, Smith gives a simple but committed turn as a man who will stop at nothing to return home, fraught as that word must be for anyone so enslaved. A cynic might think of Smith’s work here as the kind of self-abasing performance that a movie star gives before they win an Oscar, and it’s true that ‘Emancipation’ was in the works long before Smith emerged as the Best Actor favorite for ‘King Richard.'”
Smith marked his first project post-Oscars slap as a producer on “Brilliance,” the narrative feature directorial debut from two-time Academy Award winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (“Ms. Marvel”). Longtime Smith collaborator Akiva Goldsman (“I Robot,” “I Am Legend,” “Hancock”) is penning the script based on Marcus Sakey’s sci-fi novel of the same name.
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The book centers on Nick Cooper, a federal agent who works for the Department of Analysis and Response and is tasked with tracking down the 1 percent of non-neurotypical people deemed “abnorms,” or “Brilliants,” who are born with special powers. The character Nick is a parent of a Brilliant daughter and is also an abnorm himself, in a “Blade Runner”-esque twist. He has the ability to see the future and ultimately tries to stop a civil war.
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Smith will produce through his company Westbrook Studios, with Goldsman also producing.
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Long after “Bad Boys 4” was announced in 2020, Sony chairman Tom Rothman assured fans that the sequel was still on track despite Smith’s behavior at the Oscars. “That was an example of a very good person having a very bad moment, in front of the world,” Rothman said of Smith. “I believe his apology and regret is genuine, and I believe in forgiveness and redemption.”
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Smith and co-star Martin Lawrence will reprise their respective Miami detective roles for the fourth franchise installment, which officially entered pre-production in January 2023. “Bad Boys for Life” helmers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah return to direct using a script by Chris Bremner.
A decade after Smith shut down rumors of a second installment, the actor signed on to “I Am Legend 2” — thanks to co-star Michael B. Jordan’s story concept.
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“It was one of those ones I was gonna leave alone, and then I heard the idea,” Smith told Entertainment Tonight. “That might work. I think we can do that.”
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Smith teased that while the plot is still under wraps, “it’s a really, really cool concept,” and that Jordan was “part of creating the idea.” Both Smith and Jordan are set to produce. Akiva Goldsman, who co-wrote the original film, is returning to write the sequel.
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While plot details are still under wraps, “I Am Legend 2” will be set 20 to 30 years after the events of the first film. Screenwriter and producer Goldsman said “The Last of Us” — a video game series now adapted on HBO — directly inspired the film’s follow-up.
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“We trace back to the original [Richard] Matheson book, and the alternate ending as opposed to the released ending in the original film,” Goldsman said of the Manhattan-based post-apocalyptic film. “What Matheson was talking about was that man’s time on the planet as the dominant species had come to an end. That’s a really interesting thing we’re going to get to explore.”
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Goldsman added, “There will be a little more fidelity to the original text.”
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Smith and Kevin Hart are set to star in and produce a remake of “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” about two travelers who are forced into friendship due to a series of mishaps. Aeysha Carr (“Everybody Hates Chris,” “The Carmichael Show”) is set to write and direct the updated take on the John Hughes 1987 comedy. But the project’s exact future is still in transit.
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“[We’re] trying to crack the code on this one,” Hart told Entertainment Tonight Canada. “But, like anything else, you cannot do it until it’s right, and sometimes that takes time. Lots of drafts, lots of rewrites, lots of brainstorming. We’ll get it there, and when we do, it will be what it’s supposed to be, which is amazing.”
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Hart added of working with Smith, “Excited to figure something out with my guy. Both from Philadelphia, we’ve yet to do anything and we’re just doing ourselves a disservice.”
Smith is set to reunite with “Concussion” writer-director Peter Landesman for upcoming true story “The Council.” Based on the life of Harlem mob boss Nicky Barnes, the film will spotlight the never-before-told story of a crime syndicate consisting of seven Black men who ruled Harlem in the 1970s and early 80s. Barnes was dubbed “Mr. Untouchable” by the New York Times. Landesman, who also penned “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” will direct, with additional casting not yet announced.
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“The Council” was set at Netflix in 2019 with no recent updates.
Netflix has been playing fast and loose with the details about the shelved action movie. Originally set to be helmed by “Bullet Train” filmmaker and stunt whiz David Leitch, “Fast and Loose” is currently without a director, but Smith is still listed as attached to the project. The film follows a criminal who loses his memory after an attack and is forced to uncover his own past after waking up in Mexico with no recollection of how he got there. The criminal learns he has two identities, one as a crime lord and the other as an undercover CIA agent. The script was written by “Red” and “Meg” scribes Erich and Jon Hoeber.
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Will Smith may be banned from the Oscars until 2032, but the Best Actor winner isn’t slowing down his career any time soon.
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The “King Richard” star made history at the 2022 Academy Awards for slapping presenter Chris Rock onstage following a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. Rock addressed Smith\u2019s attack, clarifying that he does not consider himself to be a \u201cvictim\u201d\u00a0but that he was \u201churt\u201d by Smith\u2019s actions.
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While Smith later apologized to Rock and called the whole evening “fuzzy” in his memory, Hollywood remained divided over whether Smith’s behavior should boot him from the industry as a whole. Rumors swirled that Apple TV+ was delaying the release of Antoine Fuqua’s slave biopic “Emancipation” following the Oscars slap, and that Netflix paused development on multiple Smith-fronted films. However, “Emancipation” finally released in late 2022 \u2014 even if to little fanfare.
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“I completely understand \u2014 if someone is not ready, I would absolutely respect that and allow them their space to not be ready,” Smith said while promoting “Emancipation,” which was released in theaters in December 2022. “My deepest concern is my team \u2013 Antoine has done what I think is the greatest work of his entire career.”
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Smith continued, “The people on this team have done some of the best work of their entire careers, and my deepest hope is that my actions don\u2019t penalize my team. At this point, that\u2019s what I\u2019m working for. I\u2019m hoping that the material \u2013 the power of the film, the timeliness of the story \u2013 I\u2019m hoping that the good that can be done would open people\u2019s hearts at a minimum to see and recognize and support the incredible artists in and around this film.”
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And Smith has plenty more films in the works, ranging from “Bad Boys 4” to “I Am Legend 2.” Keep scrolling to see all of Smith’s upcoming projects one year after the “Oscars slap.”
Apple TV+’s onetime Oscar hopeful “Emancipation” made little impact upon release in theaters and on the streamer — and was ultimately forgotten by awards season after debuting in December 2022. Despite rumblings that Smith could be a consecutive Best Actor contender again on the heels of “King Richard,” IndieWire’s David Ehrlich called the biopic a “B-movie with delusions of grandeur.”
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“By virtue of its release date, subject matter, and star power alone, ‘Emancipation’ was created to be seen through the same narrow lens of the system that produced it, and The Slap — an existential threat to any feature so dependent upon the Oscars for market enthusiasm — ironically did even more to yoke the movie into Hollywood’s annual horse race at its own expense,” Ehrlich wrote.
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He continued in the review, “For his part, Smith gives a simple but committed turn as a man who will stop at nothing to return home, fraught as that word must be for anyone so enslaved. A cynic might think of Smith’s work here as the kind of self-abasing performance that a movie star gives before they win an Oscar, and it’s true that ‘Emancipation’ was in the works long before Smith emerged as the Best Actor favorite for ‘King Richard.'”
Smith marked his first project post-Oscars slap as a producer on “Brilliance,” the narrative feature directorial debut from two-time Academy Award winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (“Ms. Marvel”). Longtime Smith collaborator Akiva Goldsman (“I Robot,” “I Am Legend,” “Hancock”) is penning the script based on Marcus Sakey’s sci-fi novel of the same name.
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The book centers on Nick Cooper, a federal agent who works for the Department of Analysis and Response and is tasked with tracking down the 1 percent of non-neurotypical people deemed “abnorms,” or “Brilliants,” who are born with special powers. The character Nick is a parent of a Brilliant daughter and is also an abnorm himself, in a “Blade Runner”-esque twist. He has the ability to see the future and ultimately tries to stop a civil war.
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Smith will produce through his company Westbrook Studios, with Goldsman also producing.
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“Bad Boys 4”
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Long after “Bad Boys 4” was announced in 2020, Sony chairman Tom Rothman assured fans that the sequel was still on track despite Smith’s behavior at the Oscars. “That was an example of a very good person having a very bad moment, in front of the world,” Rothman said of Smith. “I believe his apology and regret is genuine, and I believe in forgiveness and redemption.”
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Smith and co-star Martin Lawrence will reprise their respective Miami detective roles for the fourth franchise installment, which officially entered pre-production in January 2023. “Bad Boys for Life” helmers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah return to direct using a script by Chris Bremner.
A decade after Smith shut down rumors of a second installment, the actor signed on to “I Am Legend 2” — thanks to co-star Michael B. Jordan’s story concept.
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“It was one of those ones I was gonna leave alone, and then I heard the idea,” Smith told Entertainment Tonight. “That might work. I think we can do that.”
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Smith teased that while the plot is still under wraps, “it’s a really, really cool concept,” and that Jordan was “part of creating the idea.” Both Smith and Jordan are set to produce. Akiva Goldsman, who co-wrote the original film, is returning to write the sequel.
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While plot details are still under wraps, “I Am Legend 2” will be set 20 to 30 years after the events of the first film. Screenwriter and producer Goldsman said “The Last of Us” — a video game series now adapted on HBO — directly inspired the film’s follow-up.
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“We trace back to the original [Richard] Matheson book, and the alternate ending as opposed to the released ending in the original film,” Goldsman said of the Manhattan-based post-apocalyptic film. “What Matheson was talking about was that man’s time on the planet as the dominant species had come to an end. That’s a really interesting thing we’re going to get to explore.”
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Goldsman added, “There will be a little more fidelity to the original text.”
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“Planes, Trains, and Automobiles”
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Smith and Kevin Hart are set to star in and produce a remake of “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” about two travelers who are forced into friendship due to a series of mishaps. Aeysha Carr (“Everybody Hates Chris,” “The Carmichael Show”) is set to write and direct the updated take on the John Hughes 1987 comedy. But the project’s exact future is still in transit.
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“[We’re] trying to crack the code on this one,” Hart told Entertainment Tonight Canada. “But, like anything else, you cannot do it until it’s right, and sometimes that takes time. Lots of drafts, lots of rewrites, lots of brainstorming. We’ll get it there, and when we do, it will be what it’s supposed to be, which is amazing.”
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Hart added of working with Smith, “Excited to figure something out with my guy. Both from Philadelphia, we’ve yet to do anything and we’re just doing ourselves a disservice.”
Smith is set to reunite with “Concussion” writer-director Peter Landesman for upcoming true story “The Council.” Based on the life of Harlem mob boss Nicky Barnes, the film will spotlight the never-before-told story of a crime syndicate consisting of seven Black men who ruled Harlem in the 1970s and early 80s. Barnes was dubbed “Mr. Untouchable” by the New York Times. Landesman, who also penned “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” will direct, with additional casting not yet announced.
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“The Council” was set at Netflix in 2019 with no recent updates.
Netflix has been playing fast and loose with the details about the shelved action movie. Originally set to be helmed by “Bullet Train” filmmaker and stunt whiz David Leitch, “Fast and Loose” is currently without a director, but Smith is still listed as attached to the project. The film follows a criminal who loses his memory after an attack and is forced to uncover his own past after waking up in Mexico with no recollection of how he got there. The criminal learns he has two identities, one as a crime lord and the other as an undercover CIA agent. The script was written by “Red” and “Meg” scribes Erich and Jon Hoeber.
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"page_snippet": "Here's every project Will Smith has in the works since the Chris Rock slap incident got him banned from the Oscars.\u201cWhat Matheson was talking about was that man\u2019s time on the planet as the dominant species had come to an end. That\u2019s a really interesting thing we\u2019re going to get to explore.\u201d \u00b7 Goldsman added, \u201cThere will be a little more fidelity to the original text.\u201d \u00b7 Smith and Kevin Hart are set to star in and produce a remake of \u201cPlanes, Trains, and Automobiles\u201d about two travelers who are forced into friendship due to a series of mishaps. \u201cWe trace back to the original [Richard] Matheson book, and the alternate ending as opposed to the released ending in the original film,\u201d Goldsman said of the Manhattan-based post-apocalyptic film. \u201cWhat Matheson was talking about was that man\u2019s time on the planet as the dominant species had come to an end. That\u2019s a really interesting thing we\u2019re going to get to explore.\u201d The \u201cKing Richard\u201d star made history at the 2022 Academy Awards for slapping presenter Chris Rock onstage following a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith\u2019s shaved head. Rock addressed Smith\u2019s attack, clarifying that he does not consider himself to be a \u201cvictim\u201d but that he was \u201churt\u201d by Smith\u2019s actions. While Smith later apologized to Rock and called the whole evening \u201cfuzzy\u201d in his memory, Hollywood remained divided over whether Smith\u2019s behavior should boot him from the industry as a whole. Rumors swirled that Apple TV+ was delaying the release of Antoine Fuqua\u2019s slave biopic \u201cEmancipation\u201d following the Oscars slap, and that Netflix paused development on multiple Smith-fronted films.",
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Will Smith may be banned from the Oscars until 2032, but the Best Actor winner isn’t slowing down his career any time soon.
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The “King Richard” star made history at the 2022 Academy Awards for slapping presenter Chris Rock onstage following a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. Rock addressed Smith\u2019s attack, clarifying that he does not consider himself to be a \u201cvictim\u201d\u00a0but that he was \u201churt\u201d by Smith\u2019s actions.
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While Smith later apologized to Rock and called the whole evening “fuzzy” in his memory, Hollywood remained divided over whether Smith’s behavior should boot him from the industry as a whole. Rumors swirled that Apple TV+ was delaying the release of Antoine Fuqua’s slave biopic “Emancipation” following the Oscars slap, and that Netflix paused development on multiple Smith-fronted films. However, “Emancipation” finally released in late 2022 \u2014 even if to little fanfare.
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“I completely understand \u2014 if someone is not ready, I would absolutely respect that and allow them their space to not be ready,” Smith said while promoting “Emancipation,” which was released in theaters in December 2022. “My deepest concern is my team \u2013 Antoine has done what I think is the greatest work of his entire career.”
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Smith continued, “The people on this team have done some of the best work of their entire careers, and my deepest hope is that my actions don\u2019t penalize my team. At this point, that\u2019s what I\u2019m working for. I\u2019m hoping that the material \u2013 the power of the film, the timeliness of the story \u2013 I\u2019m hoping that the good that can be done would open people\u2019s hearts at a minimum to see and recognize and support the incredible artists in and around this film.”
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And Smith has plenty more films in the works, ranging from “Bad Boys 4” to “I Am Legend 2.” Keep scrolling to see all of Smith’s upcoming projects one year after the “Oscars slap.”
Apple TV+’s onetime Oscar hopeful “Emancipation” made little impact upon release in theaters and on the streamer — and was ultimately forgotten by awards season after debuting in December 2022. Despite rumblings that Smith could be a consecutive Best Actor contender again on the heels of “King Richard,” IndieWire’s David Ehrlich called the biopic a “B-movie with delusions of grandeur.”
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“By virtue of its release date, subject matter, and star power alone, ‘Emancipation’ was created to be seen through the same narrow lens of the system that produced it, and The Slap — an existential threat to any feature so dependent upon the Oscars for market enthusiasm — ironically did even more to yoke the movie into Hollywood’s annual horse race at its own expense,” Ehrlich wrote.
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He continued in the review, “For his part, Smith gives a simple but committed turn as a man who will stop at nothing to return home, fraught as that word must be for anyone so enslaved. A cynic might think of Smith’s work here as the kind of self-abasing performance that a movie star gives before they win an Oscar, and it’s true that ‘Emancipation’ was in the works long before Smith emerged as the Best Actor favorite for ‘King Richard.'”
Smith marked his first project post-Oscars slap as a producer on “Brilliance,” the narrative feature directorial debut from two-time Academy Award winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (“Ms. Marvel”). Longtime Smith collaborator Akiva Goldsman (“I Robot,” “I Am Legend,” “Hancock”) is penning the script based on Marcus Sakey’s sci-fi novel of the same name.
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The book centers on Nick Cooper, a federal agent who works for the Department of Analysis and Response and is tasked with tracking down the 1 percent of non-neurotypical people deemed “abnorms,” or “Brilliants,” who are born with special powers. The character Nick is a parent of a Brilliant daughter and is also an abnorm himself, in a “Blade Runner”-esque twist. He has the ability to see the future and ultimately tries to stop a civil war.
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Smith will produce through his company Westbrook Studios, with Goldsman also producing.
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“Bad Boys 4”
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Long after “Bad Boys 4” was announced in 2020, Sony chairman Tom Rothman assured fans that the sequel was still on track despite Smith’s behavior at the Oscars. “That was an example of a very good person having a very bad moment, in front of the world,” Rothman said of Smith. “I believe his apology and regret is genuine, and I believe in forgiveness and redemption.”
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Smith and co-star Martin Lawrence will reprise their respective Miami detective roles for the fourth franchise installment, which officially entered pre-production in January 2023. “Bad Boys for Life” helmers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah return to direct using a script by Chris Bremner.
A decade after Smith shut down rumors of a second installment, the actor signed on to “I Am Legend 2” — thanks to co-star Michael B. Jordan’s story concept.
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“It was one of those ones I was gonna leave alone, and then I heard the idea,” Smith told Entertainment Tonight. “That might work. I think we can do that.”
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Smith teased that while the plot is still under wraps, “it’s a really, really cool concept,” and that Jordan was “part of creating the idea.” Both Smith and Jordan are set to produce. Akiva Goldsman, who co-wrote the original film, is returning to write the sequel.
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While plot details are still under wraps, “I Am Legend 2” will be set 20 to 30 years after the events of the first film. Screenwriter and producer Goldsman said “The Last of Us” — a video game series now adapted on HBO — directly inspired the film’s follow-up.
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“We trace back to the original [Richard] Matheson book, and the alternate ending as opposed to the released ending in the original film,” Goldsman said of the Manhattan-based post-apocalyptic film. “What Matheson was talking about was that man’s time on the planet as the dominant species had come to an end. That’s a really interesting thing we’re going to get to explore.”
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Goldsman added, “There will be a little more fidelity to the original text.”
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“Planes, Trains, and Automobiles”
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Smith and Kevin Hart are set to star in and produce a remake of “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” about two travelers who are forced into friendship due to a series of mishaps. Aeysha Carr (“Everybody Hates Chris,” “The Carmichael Show”) is set to write and direct the updated take on the John Hughes 1987 comedy. But the project’s exact future is still in transit.
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“[We’re] trying to crack the code on this one,” Hart told Entertainment Tonight Canada. “But, like anything else, you cannot do it until it’s right, and sometimes that takes time. Lots of drafts, lots of rewrites, lots of brainstorming. We’ll get it there, and when we do, it will be what it’s supposed to be, which is amazing.”
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Hart added of working with Smith, “Excited to figure something out with my guy. Both from Philadelphia, we’ve yet to do anything and we’re just doing ourselves a disservice.”
Smith is set to reunite with “Concussion” writer-director Peter Landesman for upcoming true story “The Council.” Based on the life of Harlem mob boss Nicky Barnes, the film will spotlight the never-before-told story of a crime syndicate consisting of seven Black men who ruled Harlem in the 1970s and early 80s. Barnes was dubbed “Mr. Untouchable” by the New York Times. Landesman, who also penned “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” will direct, with additional casting not yet announced.
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“The Council” was set at Netflix in 2019 with no recent updates.
Netflix has been playing fast and loose with the details about the shelved action movie. Originally set to be helmed by “Bullet Train” filmmaker and stunt whiz David Leitch, “Fast and Loose” is currently without a director, but Smith is still listed as attached to the project. The film follows a criminal who loses his memory after an attack and is forced to uncover his own past after waking up in Mexico with no recollection of how he got there. The criminal learns he has two identities, one as a crime lord and the other as an undercover CIA agent. The script was written by “Red” and “Meg” scribes Erich and Jon Hoeber.
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"page_snippet": "Smith talked about how grappling with his rapidly increasing fame at such a young age led him to make decisions during that time that he now regrets and wishes he had made differently. The reunion show also features a tribute to James Avery, who died in 2013, that was shown to the surviving cast.The series stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart teenager born and raised in West Philadelphia who is sent to live with his wealthy uncle and aunt in Bel-Air, Los Angeles, where his lifestyle often clashes with that of his upper-class relatives. Known as Smith's star vehicle into television, and later his film career, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was a top hit for NBC, running for 148 episodes over six seasons. A reunion special/retrospective reuniting the original cast debuted on HBO Max in November 2020. The theme song and opening sequence set the premise of the show. Will Smith is a street-smart African-American teenager, \"born and raised\" in West Philadelphia. While playing street basketball, Will accidentally hits a group of gang members with the ball, causing a confrontation that frightens his mother, who sends him to live with his wealthy aunt and uncle in the opulent neighborhood of Bel Air, Los Angeles. Jones was impressed by the idea and arranged a meeting with NBC chief Brandon Tartikoff. Will Smith was well known at the time as one-half of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, which had put him on the mainstream radar, but he had come into debt after failing to pay taxes. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American television sitcom created by Andy and Susan Borowitz for NBC. It aired from September 10, 1990, to May 20, 1996. The series stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart teenager born and raised in West Philadelphia who is ...",
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Known as Smith's star vehicle into television, and later his film career, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was a top hit for NBC, running for 148 episodes over six seasons.[1][2] A reunion special/retrospective reuniting the original cast debuted on HBO Max in November 2020.[3][4] A more dramatic reimagining of the series, titled Bel-Air and based on the fan film of the same name, was given a two-season order for Peacock, and released on February 13, 2022.[5]\n
The theme song and opening sequence set the premise of the show. Will Smith is a street-smart African-Americanteenager, \"born and raised\" in West Philadelphia. While playing street basketball, Will accidentally hits a group of gang members with the ball, causing a confrontation that frightens his mother, who sends him to live with his wealthy aunt and uncle in the opulent neighborhood of Bel Air, Los Angeles.\n
Will's working class background ends up clashing in various humorous ways with the upper class world of the Banks family \u2013 Will's stern uncle Phil and tough but fair aunt Vivian and their children, Will's cousins: spoiled Hilary, pompous Carlton, impressionable Ashley and baby Nicky (introduced in season 3), as well as their sarcastic butler Geoffrey.\n
The show is notable for having a heavy celebrity guest presence, with more than forty celebrities guest starring throughout the series. Seasons 1 and 6 had the highest celebrity participation, with over 10 celebrity guest stars each.[6]\n
In 1990, music manager Benny Medina, along with his business partner, real estate mogul Jeff Pollack, decided to market a TV story based on Medina's life. Medina had grown up poor in East Los Angeles but his life changed when he befriended a rich white teenager, whose family lived in Beverly Hills and allowed Medina to live with them. Medina decided to use this part of his life as the main focus of the show. However, given that by then a black character living with a white family was a concept that had been done multiple times on TV, Medina decided to change the rich white family to a rich black family. \"That way we could explore black-on-black prejudice as well as black class differences\", Medina said in an interview for Ebony magazine.[46]\n
Medina pitched the idea to Quincy Jones, who had just signed a TV deal with Time-Warner. Jones was impressed by the idea and arranged a meeting with NBC chief Brandon Tartikoff. Will Smith was well known at the time as one-half of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, which had put him on the mainstream radar, but he had come into debt after failing to pay taxes. At the suggestion of his then-girlfriend, Smith went to a taping of The Arsenio Hall Show where he met Medina by chance. Medina pitched the idea to Smith, but Smith was reluctant, having never acted before. Medina invited Smith to meet Jones at a party that Jones was throwing at his house in December 1989. There, Jones handed Smith a script for a failed Morris Day pilot that he had produced and challenged Smith to audition for Tartikoff on the spot. Smith did so, and the first contract for the show was drawn up that night in a limo outside. Three months later, the pilot was shot.[47]\n
Andy Borowitz and his wife, Susan, are credited as the series' creators. Andy Borowitz, who was on a contract with NBC, was selected by Tartikoff to write the pilot. He based Will's cousins on Quincy Jones's daughters, and named Carlton after his friend Carlton Cuse. In 2015, he remarked that \"it was written and taped in about three weeks, start to finish, and somehow it worked. It was just an explosion of really good luck.\"[48]\n
The pilot episode began taping on May 1, 1990.[49] Season 1 first aired in September 1990, and ended in May 1991. The series finale was taped on Thursday, March 21, 1996,[50][51] and aired on Monday, May 20, 1996.\n
The theme song \"Yo Home to Bel Air\" was written and performed by Smith under his stage name, The Fresh Prince. The music was composed by Quincy Jones, who is credited with Smith at the end of each episode. The music often used to bridge scenes together during the show is based on a similar chord structure.\n
During the fall 1991\u20131992 season, NBC gained two hit television shows to anchor their Monday night lineup (Blossom aired immediately after The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air). To gain popularity between the two shows, Will Smith appeared in the Blossom episode \"I'm with the Band\" as himself under his rap stage name, The Fresh Prince. That same season, Karyn Parsons appeared in the Blossom episode \"Wake Up Little Suzy\" as Hilary Banks. Parsons also appeared in the Patti LaBelle sitcom Out All Night as Hilary.\n
James Avery had a short cameo as \"the father from Fresh Prince\" on Family Matters, at the end of the episode \"Scenes from a Mall\". He appears during the credits in a blooper scene where he surprises Reginald VelJohnson on set.[52]\n
In the House and Fresh Prince were both executive-produced by Winifred Hervey, David Salzman and Quincy Jones. During the second season's first episode, Alfonso Ribeiro and Tatyana Ali appeared as their Fresh Prince characters (Carlton and Ashley Banks) in the crossover episode \"Dog Catchers\". Later that season, James Avery (Phillip Banks) appeared as a mediator in the episode \"Love on a One-Way Street\".\n
Following Fresh Prince's conclusion, Ribeiro joined the principal cast of In the House from its third season as Dr. Maxwell Stanton. In the Season 4 episode \"My Pest Friend's Wedding\", Avery and Daphne Maxwell Reid (the second Vivian Banks) guest starred as Stanton's parents. Joseph Marcell, Geoffrey Butler on Fresh Prince, appeared as an officiating minister in the same episode.\n
After the show was released to syndication in 1994, the series' distribution rights were picked up by Warner Bros. Television Distribution who continue to hold them to this day and it's parent company Warner Bros currently owning the rights to the series.[53]\n
In Italy, the series aired under the name Willy, il principe di Bel-Air (Willy, the Prince of Bel-Air) on Italia 1 from September 20, 1993, until December 3, 1996.\n
The series became available to stream on HBO Max and Hulu on May 27, 2020. It streams in Canada on Crave. It began to stream on Paramount+ on March 29.\n
Warner Home Video has released the complete series, seasons 1 to 6, on DVD in Region 1.[54] Seasons 1 to 4 have been released in Regions 2 and 4. Seasons 5 to 6 have been released in Region 2 in Germany, and in the complete series boxset in the United Kingdom.\n
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's success is considered to be a watershed moment for hip-hop and black television,[67][68] with many publications referring to it as one of the greatest sitcoms of all time.[69][70] Professor Andrew Horton stated: \"Smith's genre of comedy, popularized on the sitcom Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, translated well into commercial box-office appeal. The Fresh Prince watered down and capitalized upon the then growing popularity of hip-hop and almost anticipated its dominance on the American scene\".[71]\n
Author Willie Tolliver noted: \"What The Fresh Prince did accomplish was to put Smith and his character Will into an environment of affluence and possibility, thus changing the terms of his own Black identity. This social and cultural mobility is central to Smith's racial significance, and this will become evident again and again; he moves the image of the Black male into unaccustomed spaces just as Smith himself was in the process of conquering Hollywood.\"[72]\n
On August 13, 2015, it was reported that a reboot of the show was in development by Overbrook Entertainment, with Will Smith serving as a producer.[73][74] In August 2016, during a promotional interview with the E! television network for his then upcoming film Suicide Squad, Smith denied that a reboot was in development, saying that it would happen \"...pretty close to when Hell freezes over\".[75]\n
In 2019, a mock trailer titled Bel-Air was uploaded on YouTube, written and directed by Morgan Cooper, for a darker, more dramatic re-imagining of the sitcom.[76][77] Will Smith subsequently heavily praised the fan film, commenting that \"Morgan did a ridiculous trailer for Bel-Air. Brilliant idea, the dramatic version of The Fresh Prince for the next generation\", expressing interest in expanding the idea beyond the short film into a full Bel-Air reboot series.[78][79]\n
In August 2020, it was announced that Will Smith and Morgan Cooper would be developing a reboot of the series based on Cooper's Bel-Air. The series had reportedly been in the works for over a year since Cooper posted his Bel-Air trailer on YouTube, with Netflix, Peacock and HBO Max all currently bidding for the series.[80] On September 8, 2020, Peacock gave Bel-Air a two-season order, with the series produced by and copyrighted to Universal Television.[81][82] In September 2021, the full cast was announced with newcomer Jabari Banks cast as Will Smith, Adrian Holmes as Philip Banks, Cassandra Freeman as Vivian Banks, Olly Sholotan as Carlton Banks, Coco Jones as Hilary Banks, Akira Akbar as Ashley Banks, Jimmy Akingbola as Geoffrey, Jordan L. Jones as Jazz and Simone Joy Jones as Lisa.[83] The series premiered in February 2022.[84]\n
Much of the cast virtually reunited over a video call in an episode of Smith's Snapchat reality series Will From Home that premiered in April 2020.[85] A reunion of the surviving original cast, The Fresh Prince Reunion, aired on HBO Max in November 2020. Among other reminisces, Janet Hubert appeared, also appearing around this time in a joint radio interview with Smith where the two reconcile.[86][87] More information and context were offered regarding the situation between Smith and Hubert and her exit when the two met for their conversation. Hubert discussed the turmoil in her personal life, her abusive marriage and that she had not actually been fired by the show. She was offered what she described as a \"bad deal\" to return for the fourth season and she turned it down. Smith talked about how grappling with his rapidly increasing fame at such a young age led him to make decisions during that time that he now regrets and wishes he had made differently.[88] The reunion show also features a tribute to James Avery, who died in 2013, that was shown to the surviving cast. The tribute brought the entire cast to tears.[89]\n
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