Will Smith was spotted on set in New South Wales, Australia, on August 26, 2026. Amazon MGM Studios posted a video of the moment. Will Smith is back. And his comeback vehicle is a prison thriller filmed in the suburbs of Sydney and a decommissioned power station on Lake Macquarie. Filming is taking place in New South Wales between August and November 2026.
Supermax is directed by David Gordon Green – whose previous work includes the Halloween reboot trilogy and Scarpetta – from a screenplay by David Weil and David J. Rosen (Hunters, Invasion). Miramax acquired the spec script in May 2025. Amazon MGM Studios acquired worldwide distribution rights for around $70 million in May 2026 when Smith joined the project, produced by The Picture Company alongside Adam Fishbach and Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios.
The film follows two FBI agents investigating a seemingly impossible murder inside the world’s most maximum-security prison – billed as impregnable, where entry and exit are supposed to go unseen. Smith plays one of the agents. AnnaSophia Robb – fresh from Rebel Ridge – plays his partner. Jaafar Jackson, Jason Clarke, Melissa Leo, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Nathan Phillips, Andrés Almeida, Martin Bats Bradford and Erika Ringor complete the cast.
