Will Smith Teams With MS. MARVEL Director for New Film BRILLIANCE About Kids Born with Powerful Gifts
Will Smith has jumped on board a new film project that will will produce and most likely star in. It’s titled Brilliance, and is based on the book by Marcus Sakey. Smith is also teaming up with Ms. Marvel director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy on the project.
Apparently this is a passion project from Smith and producer and writer Akiva Goldsman who worked together on I, Robot, I Am Legend, and Hancock.
In the story, “If 1% of the world’s children were born with powerful gifts, how would society adapt to them? 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. They are officially labeled as ‘Brilliants’ and are carefully tracked by the government.”
If Smith stars in the film he will play the hero of the story, Nick Cooper, “a federal agent who works for the Department of Analysis and Response. His job is to track down and terminate criminal abnorms who use their gifts for ill. The agent is himself an abnorm, with a gift for predictive analysis that allows him to see what will happen before it happens and react preemptively. He is also the father of a Brilliant daughter.”
As he infiltrates a radical group of Brilliants who plan to incite a civil war, “he uses his own gifts against his Brilliant enemies, like an assassin who perceives time faster than his opponents. When Cooper is ordered to hunt down John Smith — the country’s most elusive and most dangerous abnorm — everything Cooper believes in will be called into question. As one of the abnorms he’s hunting tells him, ‘You can’t stop the future. All you can do is pick a side.’”
I don’t know, that story doesn’t really interest me as it’s something that’s already been done several times before. Hell, it fells like the whole mutant scenario in Marvel’s X-Men comics.
This would be Smith first new big film project since he slapped Chris Rock across the face at the Oscars.
Source: Deadline