Brilliance movie production status is currently Pre-Production
October 30, 2022 • Key talent and film crew being hired; budgeting, preparing and planning of production schedule; approving final shooting script Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will make her narrative feature directorial debut.
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Plot: What's the story about?
Set in an alternate present day, one percent of children are born savants with special powers. Called “brilliants,” they are capable of exceptional things. A federal agent uses his skills to become a master hunter of terrorists, pursues a savant terrorist who intends to provoke civil war.
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Who stars in Brilliance: Cast List
Will Smith ... Nick Cooper
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Who's making Brilliance: Crew List
A look at the Brilliance behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's writer Akiva Goldsman last wrote Doctor Sleep and The Dark Tower.
Director
Screenwriter
Producers
Akiva GoldsmanJames Lassiter
Shane Salerno
Will Smith
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Production: What we know about Brilliance?
Key Facts
- This is the fourth film Smith and Goldsman have teamed together for. The other three films - I, Robot, I Am Legend and Hancock — collectively grossed around $2 billion.
- Will Smith is playing a federal agent, a brilliant with great hunting gifts who is drafted to hunt down a terrorist, another such brilliant who intends to start the civil war.
- Based on Marcus Sakey's novel.
Filming Timeline
- 2022 - October: The film was set to Pre-Production status.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will make her narrative feature directorial debut.
- 2019 - September: The film was set to Development status.
Film has been changed from a Legendary/Universal project, to Paramount Pictures, and has acquired Will Smith and Akiva Goldsman. The two partnered for previous films, I, Robot, I Am Legend and Hancock.
- 2014 - May: The film was set to Pre-Production status.
Aiming for a summer 2014 start.
- 2014 - February: The film was set to Development status.
- 2013 - March: The film was set to Announced status.
Legendary Pictures has tapped David Koepp to pen its adaptation of the Marcus Sakey novel.
Brilliance Release Date: When is the film coming out?
Brilliance is coming out as a release To Be Announced (TBA). There are 9,419 other movies coming out on the same date, including Sesame Street, The Rosie Project and Shrek 5.