Will Smith's Gemini Man gets 2019 release date

Filmmaker Ang Lee's science-fiction action film Gemini Man, starring Will Smith, will hit the screens on October 4, 2019.

American film and television production company Skydance associated last year with the project, which has been in development for two decades. Jerry Bruckheimer, Skydance chief David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger are producing it.

Lee became attached to the Paramount Pictures' project in April. In 2009, the late Curtis Hanson was meant to direct Gemini Man, about an aging NSA agent who's targeted for death when he tries to retire. He then discovers his assassin is a younger cloned version of himself. The film was first set up at Disney in 1997.