The week before the Oscar ceremony, director David Leitch – in a stroke of unintentional good timing – withdrew as the director of a planned Netflix movie Fast and Loose, starring Will Smith.

A source says Netflix was competing with Universal to be the next project for Leitch, but Universal pulled ahead. According to sources, Netflix put out an urgent call for another director to take over a project featuring the star who was heavily favored to win best actor at the Oscars.

Soon after Smith’s attack on Chris Rock on the Oscars stage, Netflix quietly moved the project to the back burner.

It appears that Netflix was understandably wary of moving forward.

It is unclear whether it will try to make the project with another star and director.

Smith now has Apple+’s slave escape drama Emancipation in post-production.

Otherwise, Bad Boys 4 at Sony had been in active development – Smith received 40 pages of the script prior to the Oscars – but will now pause, a source said.

A few other projects in pre-production are likely to do the same.

In his April 1 statement resigning from the Academy, Smith said, “Change takes time and I am committed to doing the work to ensure that I never again allow violence to overtake reason.”