
Source: The Wrap
Will Smith is targeting Universal and Legendary Pictures' upcoming adaptation of Marcus Sakey's sci-fi/superhero novel Brilliance. The Wrap reports that Smith would play the lead role of Federal Agent Nick Cooper in the big screen version, to be directed by Julius Onah with a script by David Koepp.
The original book, published last year, is officially described as follows:
In Wyoming, a little girl reads people’s darkest secrets...