Will Smith Collides with the NFL in ‘Concussion’

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If Tom Cruise thought fighting The Syndicate was tough, he should be grateful he’s not in Will Smith’s shoes.

In the upcoming film “Concussion,” Smith tangles with an all-powerful, shadowy organization of violence and doom that goes by the initials “N.F.L.," a trailer released Monday shows.

Smith plays Dr. Bennet Omalu, the forensic pathologist who discovered a chronic brain injury linked to professional football players, only to find himself attacked and discredited by the league, portrayed in the trailer as something akin to the Evil Empire.

The film dramatizes events in the powerful Frontline documentary, "A League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis," which portrayed the NFL as going to great lengths to suppress research and discredit experts like Omalu who linked the violence of the game with longterm health problems.