Will Smith and director Michael Bay were meant to re-team for Netflix's Fast and Loose, but have since parted ways.

Bad Boys director Michael Bay has quit the team for Netflix’s forthcoming action film Fast and Loose over creative differences with Will Smith. The 60-year-old filmmaker made his directorial debut with the hit action-comedy Bad Boys in 1995, which starred Smith, 56, and Martin Lawrence, 60, as detectives in the Miami Police Department.

Fast and Loose has been in the works since before Smith's slap of Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars ceremony. THR previously reported that David Leitch had exited the project the week before the infamous Academy Awards telecast to start work on The Fall Guy, the Ryan Gosling-Emily Blunt action-comedy feature that Universal released last year.