Has Will Smith found his American Gangster? The two-time Oscar nominee is set to star in Netflix's crime drama The Council, in which he'll play notorious New York City crime boss Nicky Barnes, Collider has learned. Concussion filmmaker Peter Landesman wrote the script, which delves into the never-before told story of a crime syndicate consisting of seven African-American men who ruled Harlem in the 1970s and early '80s. This was no ordinary crime syndicate, as the men dreamed of a self-sufficient and self-policing African American city-state, funded by revolutionizing the drug game. …