Will Smith & David Leitch Memory-Loss Action Thriller ‘Fast & Loose’ Acquired By Netflix

Actor Will Smith is returning to the world of action filmmaking partnering with director David Leitch (“Hobbs & Shaw,” “Deadpool,” “Atomic Blonde“) for “Fast & Loose” at STXfilms. Screenwriters Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber are behind the film’s high-concept script that sees Smith playing a man that “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.”

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Streaming giant Netflix has now acquired the worldwide rights to “Fast & Loose” after a bidding war, as Deadline reports that they landed it after “every major player” was involved. However, how much Netflix spent to get their hands on the film wasn’t mentioned. 

Will Smith is also attached to “Bad Boys 4,” Netflix’s sequel to “Bright,” and may eventually return to the Deadshot role from “Suicide Squad” in future DCEU projects after sitting out from James Gunn‘s “The Suicide Squad.”

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Leitch had been shooting Sony Pictures’ “Bullet Train,” an assassin pic that takes place mostly on a speeding Japanese bullet train. The impressive cast consisting of Brad Pitt, Joey King, Andrew Koji, Michael Shannon, Sandra Bullock, Zazie Beetz, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Logan Lerman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Masi Oka, and rapper Bad Bunny.

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He’s also directing with an untitled stuntman movie starring Ryan Gosling at Universal Pictures, as part of his first-look deal with the studio alongside the development of a film based on the “Kung Fu” series and might be involved with their sequel to “Hobbs & Shaw.”

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It’s unclear when they plan to get cameras rolling on “Fast & Loose.”