variety的消息
Kristen Stewart No Longer Attached to Con Artist Pic
Justin Kroll
@krolljvar
Will Smith may have found his next project — he is in final talks to star in the Warner Bros. con artist pic “Focus.”
Kristen Stewart was attached to also star in the pic but when Smith became engaged in the project, Stewart fell off with the feeling that the age difference between the two would be too large a gap.
Smith had been weighing the film for some time and has committed to joining it.
Written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, who helmed “Crazy, Stupid, Love” for the studio, the story follows an inexperienced female con artist who teams up with a more seasoned male one. Denise DiNovi will produce.
It’s a sign of positive forward movement for Warners, which has been trying to get the project made since Ficarra and Requa brought them the script early last year. The original idea was to reteam “Crazy Stupid Love” co-stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone for the leads, but when Gosling’s schedule could not be worked out, Warners began looking at other candidates.
Sources say the studio loves the script but knew it would be tough to greenlight without a top-tier actor, so it began courting leads such as Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck. Affleck came close but earlier commitments got in the way.
Smith has spent several months considering his next project. Though he has several sequels in development, it appears he was looking for something new and original.
Sources say he had considered making Hurricane Katrina pic “The American Can,” which he had been previously linked to, his next film, and that Warners had also approached him for “The Accountant.”
Smith, who can next be seen in Sony’s “After Earth,” is repped by CAA and Overbrook.

THR消息
If a deal makes, Smith would take the role vacated by Ben Affleck.
Kristen Stewart is no longer set to star in Focus, a Warner Bros. heist project being directed by Crazy, Stupid, Love helmers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. And as Stewart exits, the project could be landing a male star in Will Smith.
Focus is a two-hander about a con man who becomes romantically involved with a novice. He is then thrown off his game when the former flame shows up just as he’s staging an elaborate con in Buenos Aires.
Requa and Ficarra wrote the script with their Crazy, Stupid, Love stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in mind but when the actors were unavailable, moved to Ben Affleck and Stewart.
Affleck dropped out in December, causing a new search for a leading man. Sources say in recent weeks Stewart also quietly exited the project.
And now Smith is in talks to take the male lead. If a deal comes together, he would be back in business with Warners, which has been itching to work with the actor since 2007's I Am Legend.
The studio has courted him on several projects, including on an adaptation of DC Comics’ anti-hero space bounty hunter comic, Lobo.

现在威尔史密斯正式商谈原本给小本的角色，但懒K方面已经在数周前退出focus。。。。。为什么我心里有种莫名的畅快
focus命途多舛啊，先是被高司令和石头推掉，又是接连被小本和懒K推掉。。。。只能说，祝好运了。。。以后我懒K就跟focus没任何关系了

其实我觉得这反而是好事，本来focus一再推迟就已经把大家的耐心消耗的差不多了，而且感觉K和威尔史密斯实在是很不搭很不搭，怎么可能演得了情侣，再者，或许她那段时间另有安排了

也好，省的烦了。威尔史密斯的确跟小K完全不搭，想想那画面都恐怖滴。。。作为如此青葱的青春偶像，哪能做如此牺牲的！推了好。

美女也是高处不胜寒额。。。自从跟五边形混在一起，运气也跟着歪鼻了。靠！

偶是星辰小马甲。。。
懒K是想干嘛呀。。。。

你妹的额，心情有点点不爽，上来发泄下！！！

哎，其实感觉这片子剧情挺好的。k的以年龄差距为由推掉片子也挺无厘头，话说will smith可是难得的票房口碑兼得的演员，连续8部片子破1亿美元票房也忒牛了(加上黑衣人3应该是9部了吧)，k和他合作也能沾光不少，不过他们的黑白配是挺不和谐的= = 尊羡慕懒k整天玩乐，我天朝吃苦勤奋的民族性格源远流长，还真是不太适应美国人的享乐价值观[摊手...

果然失业了

你K真是万人黑呀，黑到无下限了， 我看到那些黑子话怎么笑的无比开心呢，看来我真是在后妈粉的路上越走越远。