{"id":1506652,"date":"2026-05-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=e23189f310b4fdcc9929ad42d9c0a0b4"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:20:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:20:05","slug":"will-smith-to-star-in-supermax-for-amazon-mgm-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1506652","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith to star in &#8216;Supermax&#8217; for Amazon MGM Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/94d0cbee8610c99a4e28e67675734716.png\" alt\/><figcaption>Will Smith attends the 'Emancipation' Los Angeles premiere at Regency Village Theatre on Nov. 30, 2022, in Los Angeles, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Will Smith has found his next role.<\/p><p>The actor is set to star in the upcoming action-thriller film <em>Supermax<\/em> for Amazon MGM Studios, ABC Audio has confirmed.<\/p><p><em>Pineapple Express<\/em> and <em>Halloween<\/em> director David Gordon Green will helm the film, which is set to stream worldwide on Prime Video. Amazon MGM Studios acquired the rights to the movie from Miramax.<\/p><p>Smith will star as Rex in the film, which is described to be \"a propulsive and twist-laden action thriller.\" It follows two FBI agents who investigate a murder that has taken place inside the world's most secure prison.<\/p><p>Casting on the movie is currently ongoing and production is set to start in mid-August.<\/p><p>David Weil and David J. Rosen, who are known for their work on the TV shows <em>Hunters<\/em> and <em>Invasion<\/em>, wrote the film. Smith will produce the movie for his company Westbrook.<\/p><p><em>Supermax<\/em> will mark Smith's first onscreen appearance since the 2024 film <em>Bad Boys: Ride or Die<\/em>. That movie&nbsp;was his first major film part after the 2022 incident in which he slapped presenter Chris Rock onstage at the 94th Academy Awards. It was the same night he won his best actor Oscar for portraying Richard Williams in the biopic <em>King Richard<\/em>.<\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Smith attends the &#8216;Emancipation&#8217; Los Angeles premiere at Regency Village Theatre on Nov. 30, 2022, in Los Angeles, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer\/Getty Images)Will Smith has found his next role.The actor is set to star in the upcoming action-thrill&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1919,"featured_media":1506655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/94d0cbee8610c99a4e28e67675734716.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 00:52:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/94d0cbee8610c99a4e28e67675734716.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1506652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506656,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506652\/revisions\/1506656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1506655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1506652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1506652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1506652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}