Will Smith has fueled excitement for Bad Boys 4 by revealing that filming for the movie has wrapped.
Big Willy Style took to Instagram on Monday (March 4) to share a photo of him and co-star Martin Lawrence on set, adding in the caption that the film is locked and loaded for a summer release.
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“WRAPPED! Nothin’ but Magic every time I’m with my guy. See y’all June 7 for @BADBOYS 4!” he wrote.
Smith also shared a carousel of him with Grammy-winning singer/musician Jon Batiste, who stopped by the set to check out the last day of filming.
“@jonbatiste came to see Me & @martinlawrence on our last day of shooting @badboys. I don’t remember what I was talkin’ about but there was a whole lotta Hand-Talkin’ goin’ on!” he joked.
Fans were quick to speculate about the movie’s plot in the comments section, with many poking fun at Smith’s beef with Chris Rock.
“It will be an extreme plot twist if Chris Rock is the villain,” one user wrote.
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Another noted the remarkably short gap between the completion of filming and the movie being released: “Lol damn filming wrapped in March and the movie dropping in June? Whole movie probably AI [crying laughter emoji].”
A third added: “The fact that this movie wrapped today and will be in theaters in 3 months is impressive.”
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Despite how quickly the film is scheduled to hit theaters, Will Smith has been teasing Bad Boys 4 for some time.
The Oscar winner initially shared news of the movie in January 2023, posting a video on social media where he yelled, “It’s about that time!” as he pulled up to Martin Lawrence’s house while blasting s Nelly, Diddy and Murphy Lee’s “Shake Ya Tailfeather” from the Bad Boys II soundtrack.
“It’s about that time. It’s official. Bad Boys for life,” Smith emphatically stated before he and Lawrence both realized 2020’s installment already used that title for the movie. “We shouldn’t have called it that, though. The three was the ‘E’ but this is Bad Boys 4.”
In other Will Smith news, it was recently revealed that De La Soul were initially offered the starring role in the hit sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
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Posdnuos and Maseo were speaking on their new Apple Music show Art Official Intelligence Radio with De La Soul when they made the revelation.
With guest Queen Latifah, the duo talked about nearly being cast in the show, which ran from 1990 to 1996 and established Smith as a Hollywood star.
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Posdnuos said: “A lot of people don’t know, yo, the Fresh Prince thing was offered to us.”
He added: “They want us to do this? Russell [Simmons] was like, ‘Yo, y’all need to try out. Go out there.’ We was like, ‘Nah. We do rap and stuff.’ Honestly, we were scared. Seriously, we were scared.”
“And shit, I could have been Will Smith. I could have got married to Jada. Damn,” he joked.
