Will Smith Gets A Bounty On His Head

Will Smith seems determined to prove that there€™s life after After Earth, in his career at least. Following his lacklustre M. Night Shyamalan team-up that went the way every M. Night Shyamalan film has in the past decade, he€™s set to return to screens next week in Focus, take aim as Deadshot in the Suicide Squad adaptation, and now go on the run in a Fugitive-fashioned action thriller, Bounty, which he€™s also set to produce. Sharing absolutely no connection with the last choice chocolate at the bottom of the selection box, Bounty is being written by Sascha Penn and will see Smith as a man wrongfully imprisoned for a murder he had no part in, only to escape in an effort to prove his innocence. Out on the run and desperate to clear his name, things are made all the more tricky when the widow of the man Smith supposedly snuffed out puts a $10 million (wait for it) bounty on his head, dead or alive. Though there€™s some obvious connections to the Harrison Ford classic, seeing Smith out on the lamb wouldn€™t be completely new territory when you consider his surveillance-based thriller, Enemy of the State. That was a great film from the actors earlier days and played a valuable part proving that he could do more than save us from aliens or crack wise with Martin Lawrence. Maybe Bounty could remind us he€™s actually good when he€™s in the right film, then? Before the Bounty gets put out you can of course expect to see Mr. Smith in Focus, which arrives in cinemas next week (get some interesting thoughts on that here), as well as Suicide Squad, which will be shooting up screens August 5, 2016.