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Netflix announces Bright 2

Panned by the critics but Will Smith & Joel Edgerton movie has defied the odds to win a sequel.

Critics hated it (28% Rotten Tomatoes) but viewers were more taken by Netflix telemovie Bright, starring Will Smith & Joel Edgerton, which has defied the odds to win a sequel.

Yesterday Netflix confirmed Bright 2 from writer / director David Ayer with Smith and Edgerton expected to return.

Bright is the highest viewed Netflix film ever on the service in its first week of release and one of the biggest originals (including sequels/additional seasons) Netflix has ever launched,” it said in a statement.

Bright is the #1 movie on Netflix in every country (190+ countries) since its release with more people viewing the film internationally than domestically.”

On Rotten Tomatoes it has an Audience Score of 88%.

Netflix declined to detail viewing numbers.

Set in an alternate present-day, this action-thriller directed by David Ayer (Suicide Squad, End of Watch, writer of Training Day) follows two cops from very different backgrounds (Ward, a human played by Will Smith, and Jakoby, an orc played by Joel Edgerton) who embark on a routine patrol night that will ultimately alter the future as their world knows it. Battling both their own personal differences as well as an onslaught of enemies, they must work together to protect a thought-to-be-forgotten relic, which in the wrong hands could destroy everything.

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  1. I was presuming that Bright is supposed to be a futuristic look at the Lord of the Rings universe minus the ring set in America which I suppose who be a natural location for the Dark Lord. I had to stop watching a quarter of the way through because others watching had had enough but I finished the whole show later on. CGI, makeup and set production is good but the story is erratic and full of gratuitous moments including too much high level coarse language and the unnecessary (supposedly funny?) death of a fairy swatted like a fly, perhaps Will Smith was re-imagining Men in Black for his character with Bad Boys thrown in, but Joel Edgerton stole the show.

    1. I *hated* the fairy death! It looked so sad lying there dead like that, it was just like a tiny human with wings. I didn’t understand what was funny about it either.

  2. I am so psyched about this because I (or indeed, the audience it seems) must have seen a different cut to the critics… because I absolutely adored this telemovie. I’m very keen to spend more time in this world, as it appropriately teased a lore within the world that has me completely curious and craving more… (a dragon floating in the background in a scene? Yeah..! I’m down for more!).
    I thought the banter was top notch between the two leads and Edgerton has managed to create one of my favourite characters of last year in Jakoby. Plus the action was deftly choreographed and shot. It was exciting, unpredictable and above all else… original.
    I love this news!

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