​Will Smith’s New Netflix Film Bright Looks Amazing

Remember the days when Netflix used to be like an online Blockbuster? Now it makes its own TV programmes and films and it's spent £90 million on a single film that's coming out in December - and it looks epic.

The director of Suicide Squad, David Ayer, is teaming up with Will Smith again for a new fantasy action film called Bright.

Take a look at the trailer here...

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It is set in an alternate present-day where humans, orcs, elves, and fairies have been living together since the world began - already sounds pretty cool. Who doesn't love a gritty thriller with science-fiction elements? But it's essentially a buddy cop movie - it follows two police officers from very different backgrounds. Ward, played by Will Smith, and Jakoby, played by Aussie actor Joel Edgerton "embark on a routine patrol night and encounter a darkness that will ultimately alter the future and their world as they know it," according to Netflix.

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Apparently the two cops are looking for a superweapon. It's always a superweapon!

It looks like the two policeman cross into each other's worlds: the trailer shows Will Smith in a cop uniform picking up a sword like he's King Arthur with Excalibur and the orc Jakoby with a shotgun. Apparently he's the first ever orc cop. What an honour.

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Noomi Rapace from Prometheus and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Lucy Fry, Edgar Ramirez from Zero Dark Thirty, Margaret Cho from Drop Dead Diva, and Ike Barinholtz from Suicide Squad also make appearances.

The trailer for the film dropped at the Academy Awards and everyone is mad that they have to wait until December to watch the film!

It does sound like Bad Boys 3 plus orcs and elves to be honest.

So excited!

Netflix Nabs Scorsese And De Niro's Next Film The Irishman

This isn't the only film that Netflix is paying out of pocket for. Martin Scorsese's film The Irishman was too much for Paramount Pictures at £100 million, so the mob movie was snapped up by Netflix instead. Starring Robert De Niro, apparently it's going to use special effects to make him look like he's 30 again - which is the same age he was when he was in his first Scorsese movie, Mean Streets in 1973. It's going to be on Netflix in 2019 so we have a bit of a wait.

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Topics: Netflix, Will Smith

Mark McGowan

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