While we anxiously wait to see Will Smith take on another superhero movie role in next summer's Suicide Squad, the actor has a more serious film coming out this Christmas about squads of professional athletes playing an apparently suicidal sport. And it could be his next chance at an Oscar.
Titled Concussion, the drama focuses on the issue of head injury in the NFL, with Smith portraying real-life forensic neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu, who discovered that football players were dying as a result of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (a kind of brain damage) they got from playing the game. Of course, the NFL was not happy about this discovery and has denounced Omalu's work.
That makes the movie look almost like a remake of The Insider, the true drama in which Russell Crowe goes after the tobacco industry. Crowe was nominated for that film, and Smith could earn one for this, too, his first in nine years. He seems to do a good-enough accent, at least, as you can hear in this new trailer for the movie:
Concussion hits theaters on December 25. What do you think of the trailer -- is this Will Smith's next Oscar nod?
