Michael Bay is in talks to direct Will Smith in the Netflix action film Fast and easy, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Fast and easy The focus is on a crime boss who loses his memory after an attack and gradually learns that he was leading a double life as a CIA agent. Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, Chris Bremner and Eric Pearson worked on the script.

The film was already in the works before Smith’s infamous slap at Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards. THR It was previously reported that David Leitch had left the project to begin work a week before the fateful Oscars broadcast The Guy casethe action comedy between Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, which Universal released in May.

producers for Fast and easy These include Leitch and Kelly McCormick for 87North, as well as Smith. Robert Simonds and Noah Fogelson serve as executive producers for STXfilms.

Bay previously directed Smith in the 1995 action comedy Bad boys and its 2003 sequel. Smith and Martin Lawrence last played their characters from the franchise in the latest sequel. Bad Boys: Ride or Diewhich Sony released in cinemas in June. This film helped revive Smith’s reputation as an in-demand movie star following the fallout from the Academy Awards.

Shortly after the release of Bad Boys: Ride or Diewhich surpassed the $400 million mark at the global box office, THR reported that Smith was in talks to star in Sony’s sci-fi feature film Resistance. At the time, there was no director for the project, which would adapt author Daniel Suárez’s 2014 novel influx.

Other current titles for Smith include 2022 emancipation and 2021 King Richardwith the latter earning the star his first Oscar.

Bay’s most recent project as a director was the 2022 Universal film Ambulancewith Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Also known for his work on the Transformers Bay previously directed Netflix’s Ryan Reynolds-directed action film 6 Underground that came to the streamer in 2019.

deadline was the first to report Bay’s involvement with Fast and easy.