Less than a year after the scandal caused at the Oscars, “Apple” announced Monday its intention to release a new movie starring Hollywood star Will Smith.
Hollywood observers were counting on the postponement of the release of this feature-length work, titled “Imancy”, whose story revolves around the history of slavery, because of the negative image that sticks with Will Smith since he slapped him last March, the humorous Oscar party host Chris Rock, in a move that prompted the Academy Academy. To prevent him from participating in this party for ten years.
Despite the controversy, Apple is releasing this movie in American cinemas as of December 2, a week before it is released on its streaming platform, Apple TV Plus.
This schedule allows the group to release the film into the next Oscars, after Apple TV Plus became the first streaming platform to win the Best Picture Oscar at the previous edition of the event, thanks to its “Coda.”
Smith has scaled back his public appearances sharply since his last Oscar party, where he won the best actor award for his role in “King Richard”, minutes after he was famously slapped after Chris Rock released a joke about his wife Jayda Pinkett Smith’s alopecia-related baldness.
Will Smith publicly apologized for the incident shortly after it occurred. In July, he posted a video clip on social networks showing the humorist’s meeting.
The 54-year-old actor resigned from the Academy, which banned him from attending its events for 10 years, but nothing prevents him from being nominated in the competition. The Oscar Academy did not withdraw the award from him, despite the scandal that had sparked it.
Smith embodies in the movie “Immanence” the character of a runaway slave in the plains of Louisiana hoping to reach the northern states that symbolized the war for black Americans in the United States during the nineteenth century.
This film is signed by Antoine Fuqua, who also directed “Training Day” in 2001 and which allowed Denzel Washington to win an Oscar for Best Actor.
“Emancipation” was originally scheduled to be filmed in Georgia, but the producers moved the location to Louisiana after the southern US state passed a controversial law that, according to NGOs, aims to discourage black Americans from using their right to vote.
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