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Evan Spiliotopoulos, who worked on Disney's live-action 'Beauty and the Beast' as well as the Snow White-centric fantasy 'The Huntsman: Winter's War,' has been tapped to pen the script for the followup, which will once again be directed by Ayer.

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00:00The nation's first orcish police officer.

00:02I can't fuck up my pension.

00:04Hey, don't get me stabbed.

00:05Wide orcs always gotta be the bad guys.

00:08Netflix's sequel to Bright, the streaming giant's action fantasy starring Will Smith,

00:12is moving ahead with a new writer.

00:14Evan Spiliotopoulos, who worked on Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast,

00:18as well as the Snow White-centric fantasy The Huntsman Winter's War,

00:22has been tapped to write the script for the follow-up,

00:24which will once again be directed by David Ayer.

00:26Not returning, however, is Max Landis,

00:29the screenwriter who wrote the initial spec script for the first movie,

00:32and was paid a reported $3-4 million in 2016,

00:36when the project ignited a bidding war that Netflix ultimately won.

00:40Sources say Landis and Ayer disagreed creatively, which led them to part ways.

00:44Smith and Joel Edgerton are expected to return as mismatched colleagues,

00:48a veteran cop and his partner, an orc.

00:50Bright takes place in a fictional Los Angeles filled with fairies, elves, and magic wands,

00:55while acting as an allegory for real-world race relations.

00:58The first installment saw the duo reluctantly pair up to protect a magical wand from law enforcement,

01:04criminals, and an array of supernatural characters.

01:13Bright was a major movie for Netflix, costing a reported $90 million to make,

01:19but designed to show Hollywood that the streamer could compete against major blockbusters.

01:23It proved to be an audience hit, with tracking from Nielsen reporting that 11 million U.S.

01:28Netflix users streamed Bright during its first three days of release.

01:32And that, observers pointed out, was an underestimation, as Nielsen only counted users

01:36who watched the film through a TV, not those who streamed it on a computer or a mobile device.

01:41For more on this story, you can head to THR.com and let me know if you're looking forward

01:44to this bright sequel in the comments.

01:46Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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