Will Smith Attached To Star In Action Movie ‘Sugar Bandits’ With Westbrook Producing — AGC Studios & CAA Media Finance Launching Hot EFM Package

Will Smith has been set to star in Sugar Bandits, which is one of the buzziest packages at the EFM market this week in Berlin.

The market’s biggest budget project — understood to be in the $80M range — will follow a former Special Forces solider who joins an elite, vigilante squad aiming to wipe out the drug trade in Boston, but soon learns things are not what they seem.

Years ago the project was once being set up at Universal with Joe Carnahan directing but is now launching in the independent market-place.

Smith won’t play the lead but will be one of the co-stars in the movie. However, it’s not often a Will Smith movie becomes available in the indie market-place so there’s buzz from buyers about the project who have positive things to say about the script, even if a director has yet to be attached.

The last Will Smith movie to hit the market was Emancipation and that sold in a massive auction to Apple. Smith is in post on Bad Boys 4.