I have to confess that, despite the blows that the film took —too severe in my humble opinion— and that the brutal original script by Max Landis was much rounder and cruder than what ended up reaching our screens, ‘Bright’ is a film that knew how to fall in love from minute one. Something understandable if we take into account my taste for the work of David Ayer and that impossible combination between the police genre and epic fantasy.
fantasy is over
Well, if, as a server, you are one of those —apparently— few who liked the 2017 feature film starring Will Smith and were waiting for the arrival of its sequel, I bring bad news, because Netflix has decided to cancel it withering. What is not clear is if this is related to the famous Chris Rock slapping incident or if it has to do with the financial state of the company.
The news comes to us from a Bloomberg article written by Lucas Shaw, who on his Twitter account has stressed that the rejection of ‘Bright 2’ “is not linked to the incident”; although this same statement has been heard recently and on several occasions when justifying delays or cancellations of future projects “post slap” by Smith. The unknown, then, will remain in the air.
Until now, the latest news we had about ‘Bright 2’ dates from a couple of years ago, when the director Louis Leterrier was chosen to replace David Ayer at the head of a production that, according to reports last summer, was in a final phase of writing and aspired to have Will Smith and Joel Edgerton again. It seems that the wait and the effort have been in vain.