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After picking up the lead role in Focus, Deadline reports that Will Smith will play the lead role in two additional projects.

The next film that Smith has signed onto, The American Can, chronicles the true story of an ex-marine who rescued around 244 people (many of them elderly) who were left stranded after Hurricane Katrina. The American Can refers to the name of a dry building to which the hero transported the stranded. The film is based on John Keller who was seen in the documentary New Orleans My Life, My Home, My Love.

Ed Zwick (Glory, Blood Diamond) will direct Smith from a screenplay written by Adetoro Makinde (shorts: In Time, It Takes A Village) and John Lee Hancock (The Alamo, The Blindside).

According to Deadline, Focus is expected to shoot before The American Can.

As for his third project (reports Deadline)…

The Accountant, will see Smith play a brilliant autistic man who,...