really , the grasp of Will Smith ’s star power , even unknowingly , knew no bounds in the ‘ 90s .
Back in 1999 when Smith was arguably at the apex of his extensive Hollywood career , DC Comics was design an adaptation of thebonkers flopof a steampunk legal action escapade that was Wild Wild West . AsNewsaramanotes , artist Butch Guice was tap to work with Chuck Dixon and Scott Beatty on adapt the movie . However , as Guice himself recently revealed onFacebook , the project was scrapped with just a smattering of pages ferment on .
https://gizmodo.com/dear-hollywood-you-absolutely-suck-at-making-weird-wes-5567908
Will Smith, presumably while having better things to do than give likeness rights to a comic book.Image:Vevo
The reason ? Smith never sign off on his likeness to be used in the series , and , well , if you ’re making a Wild Wild West comic in the late ‘ 90s and you do n’t have that , it ’s kind of a trouble , according to Guice :
The fast reversal on trying to get a licensed book out to capitalize on the movie , and Smith ’s own fussy schedule , just meant getting it fasten onwards of time was n’t considered . And so , Guice , Dixon , and Beatty ’s study never made it to print , unobserved until Guice shared a few of his pages on Facebook along with the anecdote :
https://www.facebook.com/butch.guice/posts/10219531974910882
Still , consider that Warner Bros. , which produced Wild Wild West , had owned DC since the late ‘ 80s , you ’d recollect someone at some point in the process would ’ve notice ! At least we have this coup d’oeil of what could ’ve been .
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