Will Smith plans film comeback with sci-fi thriller ‘Brilliance’
Will Smith is set to make his return to acting with a role in new sci-fi thriller Brilliance.Deadline reports that Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will make her narrative feature directorial debut on the film, with Smith set to produce alongside Akiva Goldsman, who also worked on I, Robot and I Am Legend with the actor.Smith is also in talks to star in the film, which would mark his first major lead role since the slap incident at the Oscars, but the commitment is yet to be confirmed.Obaid-Chinoy most recently directed Ms Marvel, and has also directed Oscar-winning short documentaries Saving Face and A Girl in the River.Smith would play Nick Cooper, the hero of Marcus Sakey’s novel of the same name, who is a federal agent who works for the Department of Analysis and Response.“The Brilliance novel trilogy is set in a future where non-neurotypical people — demonized by society as “twists” or “abnorms” — are threatening the status quo of the “normal” population with their unique gifts.