Less than a year after the slap, Apple will release a movie starring Will Smith

Less than a year after the scandal caused by the slap at the Oscars, Will Smith will return to the screens.

Apple announced on Monday the release in December of its new film

, with the actor at the top of the bill.

It's still a little surprise in the world of cinema.

Hollywood professionals were rather betting on a postponement of this historic feature film on slavery, because of the scent of sulfur that emanates from Will Smith since his slap last March on comedian Chris Rock.

A slippage widely condemned, which earned him 10 years of exclusion from the ceremony.

Despite the controversy, Apple will launch

in American theaters on December 2, before a release on its Apple TV+ streaming platform the following week.

This calendar allows the group to propose the film for the next Oscars, just after becoming the first streaming platform to be awarded the statuette for best picture at the last ceremony, thanks to its feature film

.

Prohibited from ceremony but no price

The actor has kept a low profile since last year's Oscars, where he won best actor for his performance in

, minutes after slapping Chris Rock, who had derided his wife, Jada's, alopecia. Pinkett Smith.

The former

publicly apologized shortly after the incident.

In July, he also posted a video on social networks, proposing a meeting with the comedian.

The 54-year-old comedian has voluntarily resigned from the Academy of Oscars.

However, nothing prevents him from being nominated for the competition and his Oscar for best actor was not withdrawn despite the scandal.

A relocated filming

In

, he portrays a runaway slave in the swamps of Louisiana, with the hope of reaching the North of the country, synonymous with freedom for African-Americans in the United States of the 19th century.

The feature film was directed by Antoine Fuqua, whose film

in 2001, had allowed Denzel Washington to win the Oscar for best actor. 

Emancipation

was originally to be shot in Georgia, but the production was relocated to Louisiana after the adoption of a controversial law by this state of the American South, which aimed, according to several NGOs, to discourage the vote of African-Americans.

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