Will Smith Loses Another Project As Netflix Cancels Plans For Bright 2

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It just keeps piling on for Will Smith. Ever since he slapped Chris Rock for making a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's hair, Will Smith continues to see more and more of his upcoming projects get canceled or paused. This time, it's Bright 2that has been canceled.

However, this time, apparently these circumstances are different. In spite of Will Smith's slap still being pretty fresh on everyone's mind, Bright 2 being canceled by Netflix shortly after the incident is actually just a coincidence and nothing more.

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According to Lucas Shaw of Bloomberg, Netflix has ultimately decided not to move forward with production onBright 2 regardless of whether Will Smith kept his hands to himself or not. Not many other details have been shared on the matter as of now, but more are bound to come out over time. For now, some will probably speculate that Netflix might be doing this in response to losing subscribers in the sense that, with people canceling their subscriptions, they may want to spend their money a little more wisely on projects that were either received better by audiences or turned a better profit for them. Bright 2 may not have done that for them.

Plus, in all honesty, was anyone asking for a sequel to this movie? It's not like Bright exactly lit the world on fire upon its release on Netflix back in 2017. It was a creative idea to integrate mythical creatures into real-world circumstances, but evidently, audiences did not feel that the execution was well-done in spite of having big-name actors like Will Smith and Joel Edgerton in the movie. Bright currently has a 27 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and no one has thought much of the film since its release five years