Will Smith's career at stake after Chris Rock slap controversy at Oscars 2022?

Even after repenting and apologizing for his actions at the recently held 94th Academy Awards ceremony it seems like Will Smiths career has come to a haltThe Hollywood Reporter recently informed that at least a couple of films signed by him as the lead actor which were supposed to be in the works have for the time being been suspendedRecently streaming giant Netflix put a hold on Smiths upcoming thriller film Fast and Loose which was announced in July last yearA few reports obtained by the outlet also revealed that another streaming giant Sony has also hit the pause on Smiths muchawaited project Bad Boys 4Weeks before the 2022 Oscars ceremony director David Leitch reportedly also pulled away from the project electing to move to the Ryan Gosling vehicle Fall Guy for Universal and now the streaming giant has decided to pull away from the film Variety reportedThe Hollywood Reporter says other projects of Will may also be put on ice which presumably could be his other Netflix movies including The Council and Bright 2Speaking of his Sony projects it was recently reported that Smith had apparently received 40 pages of the script for the Bad Boys sequelAs per the reports obtained by The Hollywood Reporter there are other Sonytied films of his either as a producer or actor that might get haltedThese projects include sequels to Hancock and Karate KidFans are also awaiting the release of Smiths forthcoming Apple project Emancipation whose release date has not been revealed yetIn the movie Smith plays a runaway slave from a Louisiana plantation portraying the man who infamously posed for a photo in which he shows off the many scars on his backThe action thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua is written by William N CollageEmancipation was touted to have earned Will Smith another Oscar for this phenomenal performanceFor the unversed Smith on Friday local time announced that he has resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences days after he slapped comedian Chris Rock onstage at the OscarsAs per TMZ this resignation would mean he cannot vote for others but can still be nominated and even attend future Oscars ceremoniesSmith had previously apologized to the academy and to Rock A few minutes after the incident Smith was announced Best Actor at the OscarsWill Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock onstage after he got miffed at the latters joke directed at his wife Jada Pinkett SmithThe 94th Academy Awards took place at the Dolby Theatre in Los AngelesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever