As Bad Boys: Ride or Die continues to dominate at the box office, Will Smith may have found his next role. The Bad Boys star is reportedly in talks with Sony Pictures regarding a lead role in the upcoming film, Resistor. No director has been attached to the film just yet, but Zak Olkewicz of Bullet Train and Eric Warren Singer of Top Gun: Maverick have been tied to the project as screenwriters. Furthermore, Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch, Tony Shaw and Dave Wilson have all been listed as producers.
Resistor is reportedly inspired by author Daniel Suarez’s bestselling novel, Influx. The “cyberthriller” is set in “a world in which decades of technological advances have been suppressed in an effort to prevent disruptive change.”
“Particle physicist Jon Grady is ecstatic when his team achieves what they’ve been working toward for years: a device that can reflect gravity. Their research will revolutionize the field of physics—the crowning achievement of a career. Grady expects widespread acclaim for his entire team. The Nobel Prize. Instead, his lab is locked down by a shadowy organization whose mission is to prevent at all costs the social upheaval sudden technological advances bring. This Bureau of Technology Control uses the advanced technologies they have harvested over the decades to fulfill their mission,” the book’s description reads.
“Presented with the opportunity to join the BTC and improve his own technology in secret, Grady resists, and is instead thrown into a nightmarish high-tech prison built to hold rebellious geniuses like himself. With so many great intellects confined together, can Grady and his fellow prisoners conceive of a way to usher humanity out of its artificial dark age?”
Resistor is the latest film attached to Smith’s box office star. He’s been tied to several upcoming films, including Sugar Bandits, a comedy special and sequels to both Hancock and I Am Legend. Like Resistor, there is no scheduled release date for those projects yet.
