Critics weren’t especially kind to Bright, Netflix’s big 2017 push to brand itself as a real, bona fide movie studio, complete with an awful, David Ayer-directed Will Smith blockbuster of its very own. Working from a script from Max Landis, Ayer managed to make a movie that pretty much nobody in the critical sphere…
Despite what the lousy reviews would suggest, Bright has apparently ended up being the perfect Netflix movie. You don’t have to pay specifically to see it, you don’t have to leave your house, and nobody even has to know if you spend the 117 minutes watching Will Smith be racist toward orcs and stuff, so it really…
The future’s looking Bright for Will Smith, as Netflix has just officially announced a sequel to David Ayer and Max Landis’ fantasy hodgepodge. According to this video from the streaming giant, fans of the uninspired quips and underdeveloped racial parable are apparently already lining up to don prosthetics to join…
Finally, high fantasy for the sunglasses-on-the-back-of-the-head set. If nothing else, you have to admire the audacity of the Netflix executives who greenlit Bright: The core conceit of this film—a violent, R-rated cop movie that just so happens to have fantasy creatures in it—is so batshit bonkers that it’s kind of…
We’re still a few days out from the release of Bright, Netflix’s latest attempt to earn itself a spot at the big kids’ table by putting up the sort of big-budget blockbusters the major studios have been churning out for years. But while audiences have yet to be exposed to Suicide Squad director David Ayer’s fantasy…
David Ayer’s Bright comes to Netflix in only 10 days, but everybody seems more excited about some other big sci-fi/fantasy movie that you actually have to leave your house to see. That movie may have laser swords and bird creatures, but Bright has at least one thing it doesn’t have: A horrifying metal ballad that is…
Will Smith is apparently too busy recording bad EDM to speak to journalists about his upcoming Netflix movie, Bright, so it seems the Oscar-nominated actor is recruiting fans to do it for him—but only, he clarifies, if your name is Will Smith. Well, that’s the implication, at least, based on a video posted to…
The first teaser for David Ayer’s new Netflix movie Bright only gave glimpses of the film’s weird fantasy-ish setting, but this full trailer revealed at Comic-Con dives into the weirdness headfirst. According to The Hollywood Reporter, star Will Smith joked during the film’s panel that it was fun to “to be an…
Netflix may have been first to the original movie game with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword Of Destiny, but Amazon Studios has lapped its streaming sibling in the race for mainstream cinema respectability. First, Amazon got five of its original films, including The Neon Demon and The Handmaiden, into last year’s…
David Ayer’s Bright seems like it would be a great self-published novel or an entertaining indie comic book, but it looks like a pretty weird movie. It stars Will Smith as a cop, which is pretty straightforward. But he also happens to be a cop in a semi-fantastical world where humans co-exist alongside elves and orcs. …
Variety is reporting that Orange Is The New Black’s Brad William Henke has been cast in Bright, Netflix’s most expensive feature-length production to date with a production budget of $90 million. Henke is the latest addition to the project, joining Will Smith, Joel Edgerton, Noomi Rapace, and Lucy Fry. Bright will…
The Wrap reports that Will Smith and Joel Edgerton are teaming up for Bright, a cop thriller with “fantasy elements,” that will see one or both of the leads play an Orc cop. Suicide Squad’s David Ayer is directing the film, which is being written by Max Landis (Victor Frankenstein, Chronicle). The film is set in a…
