{"id":1416796,"date":"2022-04-03T10:44:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T14:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416796"},"modified":"2022-04-03T10:44:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T14:44:50","slug":"nolte-will-smiths-bad-boys-4-put-on-hold-after-oscars-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-will-smiths-bad-boys-4-put-on-hold-after-oscars-meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolte: Will Smith&#039;s &#039;Bad Boys 4&#039; Put on Hold After Oscars Meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnolte-will-smiths-bad-boys-4-put-on-hold-after-oscars-meltdown%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416796&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Fresh off the news that Netflix just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/04\/03\/netflix-puts-will-smith-movie-fast-and-loose-on-ice\/\">backed off<\/a>\u00a0its own Will Smith project comes the news that <em>Bad Boys 4<\/em> has been \u201cpaused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From the far-left <em><a href=\"https:\/\/view.email.hollywoodreporter.com\/?qs=717632777c77b6910bbefcd7ced908efc3e38000f8bdc4a818e52086e286b00c43d7008aedbca6b14d9329cb7d8169b53761a9144797e246bad84156a09ca6207563dcf9f3eaee11\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Is there any immediate effect on his projects? Well, here\u2019s one tidbit we\u2019ve heard this week:\u00a0<em>Bad Boys 4\u00a0<\/em>had\u00a0been in active development, and Smith received 40 pages of the script before the Oscars incident, according to our sources.\u00a0Now there will be a \u2026 pause \u2026 in work as things play out, we\u2019ve been told.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After\u00a0<em>Bad Boys for Life\u2019s<\/em> (2020) surprise success \u2014 $427 million worldwide gross \u2014 Sony was pretty sure it had a franchise on its hands, something it could morph into its own <em>Fast &#038; Furious<\/em> universe.<\/p>\n<p>The unexpected success of <em>Bad Boys 3<\/em> was also good news for Smith, whose days as a box office powerhouse had waned considerably. He was also the rare marquee star without a major franchise to keep him among the A-list.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, everything was going Will Smith\u2019s way. Big franchise, a big Best Actor Oscar win, a prestige picture about slavery about to stream on Apple, growing success as a producer (<em>Cobra Kai,<\/em> etc.)\u2026 Sunday should have been the capper, the triumph of Will Smith\u2019s 30-year career. But instead, he chose to disgrace himself in a way no major star has ever disgraced himself.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>On live television, Will Smith physically assaulted a much smaller man who was no threat to him or his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s assault on Chris Rock was unprovoked. It was over a joke, and 40 minutes later, it was followed by the grotesque spectacle of Smith holding his Best Actor Oscar and blubbering for five minutes about how he\u2019s God\u2019s vessel. After the ceremony, things got even more grotesque as Smith danced the night away to <em>his own music.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And now it\u2019s all coming apart\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Smith has been forced to resign from the Motion Picture Academy. Netflix is putting Smith\u2019s projects in turnaround. Sony is thinking twice about spending $350 million to produce and promote a Will Smith franchise movie.<\/p>\n<p>And why wouldn\u2019t they?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>How do you promote a $300 million movie starring a guy who assaulted a man at the Oscars without all the promotion being about your star assaulting a guy at the Oscars?<\/p>\n<p>The only way Will Smith climbs out of this is if the American people believe he has taken his medicine, has suffered enough, and deserves a second chance. The public must also believe Smith is truly repentant over this assault and not just saying so\u2026<\/p>\n<p>If I were Will Smith, I would be praying for the Academy to expel me permanently. \u00a0I would also be making private amends to Chris Rock, his family, and everyone else whose Big Night was ruined by the slap. And then I would hope news of that private outreach leaked to the media.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and instead of releasing statements filled with self-serving words like \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/04\/01\/will-smith-resigns-from-motion-picture-academy-amid-chris-rock-oscars-assault-backlash\/\">heartbroken<\/a>,\u201d I would start using words like \u201cashamed.\u201d<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off the news that Netflix just backed off\u00a0its own Will Smith project comes the news that Bad Boys 4 has been \u201cpaused.\u201d From the far-left Hollywood Reporter:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}