Here's an intriguing premise for a movie: in a world where orcs and fairies live among humans, how do the police go about their business?
That's the set-up for Bright, a fantasy cop thriller that is currently doing the studio rounds. Will Smith and Joel Edgerton are both attached for a role, with David Ayer - who just directed Smith on Suicide Squad - set to direct a script by Max Landis.
The catch, for one of the stars at least, is that we're told the script has an 'orc protagonist' - so presumably one of these two actors is going to be in performance-capture helmet / heavy prosthetics to bring that to life.
Our money is on Smith; he's done the human-cop-facing-weirdness thing before (Men in Black) and we suspect he'd quite enjoy playing with performance capture.
This project still doesn't have a studio home, and how quickly it finds one may depend on how many executives saw Victor Frankenstein, also based on a Landis script.
But Ayer and Smith have a deadline: they want to shoot this relatively soon, so that they can then team up a further time to make a planned Suicide Squad 2 in 2017.
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