Will Smith is setting up one of his next projects, and it will see the actor playing an Iraq war vet in the crime thriller, Sugar Bandits.

Based on the Chuck Hogan book "Devils in Exile", the thriller centres on an Iraq War veteran who teams up with a crew of fellow vets to target the drug trade in Boston. Hogan, whose writing credits include "The Town" and "The Strain" penned the screenplay.

'Sugar Bandits' marks the latest film for Smith, whose last major feature and the first since his infamous Oscars slap was Antoine Fuqua’s ‘Emancipation’, which sold to Apple TV+ in Cannes for a market record deal of $120 million, but failed to make a significant impact on launch.

Smith will reunite with Martin Lawrene in Bad Boys 4, which is already in post-production. The film follows 2020's Bad Boys for Life, which went on to be the most financially successful entry of the franchise and the third highest-grossing January release of all-time with a worldwide gross of $426.5 million.

"Sugar Bandits" was first announced back in 2013 with Universal developing the feature.

Source: Press Release