Will Smith to star in action thriller ‘Sugar Bandits’

Hollywood star Will Smith will be seen in the upcoming high-octane actioner Sugar Bandits, where he will play an Iraq war veteran. Based on the Chuck Hogan book Devils in Exile, the thriller centres on an Iraq war veteran who teams up with a crew of fellow vets to target the drug trade in Boston.

Hogan, whose writing credits include The Town and The Strain (which he co-wrote with Guillermo del Toro), has penned the screenplay.

Smith and Jon Mone will produce through Westbrook Studios with Ryan Shimazaki overseeing; Stuart Ford will produce for AGC Studios, which is fully financing the film; and Richard Abate (13 Hours, From Scratch) will produce for 3 Arts Entertainment.

Sugar Bandits marks the latest film for Smith, whose last major feature and the first since his infamous Oscars ‘slap’ was Antoine Fuqua’s Emancipation, which sold to Apple TV in Cannes for a market record deal of $120 million, but failed to make a significant impact on launch.