Will Smith’s next action film has just experienced a major hiccup. Her film Netflix Fast and loose has just lost its director.

According to DeadlineMichael Bay, who was to direct Fast and loosejust left the project. Both would have been unable to “reject creative differences”. This led to the exit of the bay, like the Transformers The director would have wanted more emphasis on action, while Smith wanted to look at the film’s comedy.

Fast and loose Follows Smith as “a man who wakes up in Tijuana without memories. While he reconstructing his past, he learns that he lived two lives: one as a criminal ping and the other as an in plaincloth in summits.” Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, Chris Bremner and Eric Pearson wrote the script for the action film before Michael Bay.

Bay and Smith go back, while the duo previously collaborated on 1995 Wicked. The action comedy film launched a franchise, with Smith and Martin Lawrence. Although the film received mixed criticism, it was a major commercial success. They worked together on Bad boys II in 2003. The franchise widened almost two decades later with Bad boys for life in 2020 and Bad boys: ride or dieReleased in 2024. None of the two entries presented Bay at the helm and had rather only Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah as directors.

Fast and loose was to start filming in October. Bay’s departure from the project means that Netflix must find a new director instead, because Bay has time to focus on other projects. The director would try to find a way to return to the Transformers franchise and is in talks with Paramount what it would look like. He is also ready to work with Universal Pictures for his next adaptation of the Sega video game franchise Exceed. The upcoming film will showcase Sydney Sweeney.