{"id":32581,"date":"2014-02-20T22:17:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T03:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=32581"},"modified":"2014-02-20T22:17:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T03:17:23","slug":"will-smith-in-talks-for-brilliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/20\/will-smith-in-talks-for-brilliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith In Talks For BRILLIANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/WillSmithHeader2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9162\" alt=\"WillSmithHeader2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/WillSmithHeader2.jpg\" width=\"258\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a>Will Smith is in early talks for his next film appearance, the lead role in The Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures adaptation of the Marcus Sakey novel <em>Brilliance<\/em>. Sakey&#8217;s novel tells the story of an alternate history in which some people, called &#8220;brilliants,&#8221; are born with extraordinary mental powers. Smith will star as a federal agent who is also a brilliant who is tasked with hunting down another brilliant, a terrorist intent on fomenting a civil war.<\/p>\n<p>David Koepp is scripting the adaptation with Julius Onah set to direct.<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be surprising if the studio is looking at turning this into a franchise for Smith. It certainly feels high concept enough to do so and the novel is the first in a planned literary trilogy. And if Smith is enthusiastic about this project&#8217;s franchise potential, I can see how that enthusiasm may have influenced his recent decision not to participate in <strong>Independence Day 2<\/strong>, a film that would probably be more limiting in terms of future work than <strong>Brilliance<\/strong> and a franchise could provide.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/will-smith-talks-star-sci-fi-thriller-brilliance-legendary-universal-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Wrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The actor is looking at the project to potential launch a new franchise.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/20\/will-smith-in-talks-for-brilliance\/\" title=\"Will Smith In Talks For BRILLIANCE\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[7092,563],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-brilliance","8":"tag-will-smith"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32581"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=32581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}