Smith boards City That Sailed?

When you’re a Hollywood titan, you’re allowed to take your time choosing movie projects.

When you’re Will Smith, you're allowed to take your time, but you can bet your bottom he’s got a million studio execs nagging him to sign on to something and make them a barrel of cash.

Meanwhile, The City That Sailed has been written by Andrew Gattaca Niccol, and looks like more of a thoughtful, whimsical fantasy. Smith would play a New York street magician whose daughter lives in England.

When she wishes to be able to see him (after discovering a handy room full of magic candles), Manhattan breaks away from the US and drifts across the Atlantic. Nifty.

The flick’s already being produced by Smith’s Overbrook productions, and we’d bet good money that he’d take this one up as his next starring role – it certainly appeals to the more family-oriented stories that he’s favoured of late.

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Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.