According to Deadline, Will Smith is attached Paramount Pictures’ adaptation of Marcus Sakey’s novel Brilliance. The film reunites Smith with Oscar-winning writer Avika Goldsman, who worked with the actor on I Am Legend and I, Robot.
The Brilliance trilogy is set in a future world where “brilliants” — the rare 1% born gifted with superior mental abilities — are carefully tracked by the government. Federal agent Nick Cooper, himself a “brilliant,’ is tasked with using his own gifts to infiltrate a radical group and hunt down another ‘brilliant’ who could plunge the entire country into a devastating civil war. But to catch him, Cooper will have to violate everything he believes in — and betray his own kind.
Goldsman will also be producing the project alongside Shane Salerno and The Story Factory. The producers are planning to shop the book series. Sakey’s trilogy has sold two million copies worldwide, and the books were originally sold to Legendary with Will Smith set to potentially star. The author regained the rights and wrote two sequels, A Better World and Written in Fire, before Goldsman and The Story Factory signed onto the potential movie franchise.
Smith was last seen in the Disney blockbuster Aladdin, and will next be seen in Ang Lee’s Gemini Man and the sequel Bad Boys for Life.
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