Disney delays Will Smith’s new National Geographic series

It is said that Disney has delayed production pole to pole, a nature documentary series starring Will Smith for National Geographic. Quoting a source familiar with the company’s plans, Bloomberg Reports The Walt Disney Company has postponed production until the fall. Documenting Smith’s visits to the North and South Poles, Bobble to the pole Filming was due to begin in three weeks. Westbrook Smith Studios, which the actor co-founded with wife Jada Pinkett Smith, signed an initial five-year deal for unscripted content with Disney’s Nat Geo in 2021 and has so far produced the Smith-hosted show. one strange rock and Disney + Welcome to Earth.

pole to pole It’s the latest project starring Smith that has been put on the back burner in the wake of Chris Rock’s lively presentation of Smith’s brooding presenter live at the 94th Academy Awards. Minutes before he won his first Academy Award for Best Actor for King RichardSmith walked onto the stage and slapped Rock up.”GI Jane 2″ The comedian jokes about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head.

A few days after the Smith-Rock Oscars incident, Netflix backtracks on live broadcasts fast and loose, crime drama with Smith linked to the star. That victim came after it was reported that Sony Pictures had hit ‘Pause’ in a bad boys 4which was in active development with 40 pages of script turned over to Smith ahead of the Oscars controversy.

Also at risk is a planned biographical film about the popular actor and rapper, known for his roles in The New Prince of Bel-AirAnd independence Dayand the Men in black Franchise business. earlier this month, the sun Netflix and Apple TV+ have reported “quietly removed their shows” to support the project, and rolling rock You mentioned that the movement has already stopped at Warner Bros. possibly suicide squad spinoff starring DC Comics’ Deadshot killer Smith.

to me BloombergLucas Shaw, Netflix has abandoned plans bright 2It is a sequel to David Ayer’s fantasy action movie starring Smith and Joel Edgerton. This cancellation was reportedly “unrelated” to Smith’s bombing of the Oscars.

A source close to the Smith family said, “He’s freaking out and trying not to panic, but seeing his roles lay on the ice was like a very bitter pill to swallow.” us weekly In the fallout from the Oscars. “His biggest fear is that he’s on his way to being abolished completely, and there’s nothing he can really do about it but sit back, throw away his punishment like a man and try to atone as best he can.”

Smith issued a public apology via Instagram that he faced disciplinary action over what the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences condemned as “an extremely shocking event witnessed in person and on TV”. On April 8, the AMPAS Board of Governors decided to ban Smith’s attendance at the Academy Awards and Academy events for ten years.

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