Say all you want about Will Smith, in my opinion, over lots of time, he’s shaped himself into a pretty decent actor (mock me all you want for saying that, but I still say his performance in Ali was killer). The problem with Smith is often the films he’s in… they’re usually craptastic.
However, the new film he’s about to start production on, The Pursuit of Happiness, sounds fantastic. The good folks over at Ananova give us this:
Will plays Chris Gardner an out-of-work salesman who wins custody of his young son just as he is about to start a new job in The Pursuit of Happyness. He ends up in a homeless shelter trying to look after his son reports the Hollywood Reporter.
Sounds pretty meaty. Sadly, the story also reports that Thandie Newton has been cast to appear in the film as Will Smith’s estranged wife. I just despise her (I mean that from an acting point of view… I’m sure she’s a nice girl in person). I don’t think I’ve ever seen a worse performance by an actress than her in Mission Impossible 2… and she was almost as bad again in The Chronicles of Riddick. Ug.
At any rate… I’m looking forward to this project.
