The New Sad Mad Man

Will Smith had no trouble taking over for Ben Affleck in last winter’s Focus, and, guess what – he will have not problem taking over for Hugh Jackman in the forthcoming Collateral Beauty.

See, the Awesome Aussie was meant to star with Rooney Mara in Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s follow-up to Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Jackman left the project for whatever reason (Mara is still on board, though).

Enter Smith.

The erstwhile Mr. Blockbuster will be the one playing a New York City ad exec who suffers a terrible tragedy and finds himself slipping into a dark, dark depression, only to see his co-workers devise a plan to break him out of his blue that does not quite work they way they envisioned.

Hey...whatever does the trick (and brings all the people to the movie theater)....

Photo: TomAndLorenzo.com.