“I can’t say whether the next actor will be an improvement or not, but given Fuqua’s knack for outside-the-box casting — remember a wheelchair-bound Snoop Dogg in Training Day, along with Macy Gray and Dr. Dre? — I’m confident that he’ll be able to find someone else who is more appropriate for this iconic role,” writes Jeff Sneider.
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In this action story set within the war on drugs and the criminal world of Mexican cartels, two American teens become killers for organized crime and a Mexican-American detective pursues them.
There have been talks circulating around a sequel to the 2014 crime thriller The Equalizer, but producer Todd Black has officially confirmed that The Equalizer 2 is happening with director Antoine Fuqua directing and Denzel Washington set to reprise his role as Robert McCall.
The Magnificent Seven director Antoine Fuqua may be ready for his next remake as he is in talks to helm Universal’s remake of Scarface.
In addition to his many television projects, director Antoine Fuqua has decided to tack on another project to his slate with The City. Showtime has put the dark medical drama from Fuqua and Black Box creator Amy Holden Jones into development.
With The Magnificent Seven on the horizon and the TV adaptation of Training Day ripe for release, director Antoine Fuqua isn’t wasting any time on his next project. His upcoming drama Ice has received a 10-episode straight to series order from the AT&T Audience network.
With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue, the desperate townspeople employ protection from seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers, and hired guns. As they prepare the town for the violent showdown that they know is coming, these seven mercenaries find themselves fighting for more than money.
Logline: Inspired by true events. When an intelligence leak exposes a covert mission in Afghanistan, a grieving CIA operative and his translator must find their way out of the desert, outgunned and hunted by elite special forces. Sicario meets Bourne.
The Weinstein Company has assembled a TV series package based on Mario Puzo’s Omerta. It is The Godfather author’s final novel, published posthumously in 2000.
Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves.
The first images from Antoine Fuqua’s reboot of Magnificent Seven starring a mustachioed Denzel Washington and a neckerchief-clad Chris Pratt have been released and they are serving up some major western realness.
UPDATE (4.7.16): Paramount has come out on top in the fight for T.J. English’s The Corporation with a stunning seven figure offer. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson will produce through their Appian Way banner, with Benicio Del Toro set to star.
The unique, untold American gangster story of Jose Miguel Battle Sr. (“El Padrino”), the leader of the “The Corporation” – also known as “The Godfather.”
CBS feels like it’s still in transition. Considering the overall grim landscape of year-on-year ratings decline, Les Moonves seems relatively happy with his picks last season, leaving room for maybe 3 more fall dramas this time around.Get the complete breakdown in our CBS Drama pilots preview.
Antoine Fuqua and Jerry Bruckheimer are teaming up to bring Training Day to television. The classic crime thriller, which featured Ethan Hawke as a rookie cop and Denzel Washington as his corrupt mentor, will be turned in a series adaptation from Warner Bros. TV.
Fuqua was previously in talks for the biopic before The Butler‘s Lee Daniels came on board to helm in 2012, when Hugh Jackman was still attached to star. However, our sources are now confirming that the pair are no longer involved and that Millennium has begun conversations with Fuqua to return.
A boxer on a fast-track to take the world title watches his personal and professional life crumble around him as tragedy strikes. Now, years later, he tries to put the pieces back together, and reclaim his place in the fight for the championship.
Logline: Tells the true story of a Jewish hotel engineer who transformed Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel from a small operation into a billion dollar enterprise.
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Logline: A young man leaves the crime-ridden streets of Newark for Yale, but he finds that it may not be possible to completely cut himself off from his past.
Washington will star in and Fuqua will helm the remake of the classic Western.
A former black ops commando who faked his death for a quiet life in Boston comes out of his retirement to rescue a young girl and finds himself face to face with Russian gangsters.
A former black ops commando who faked his death for a quiet life in Boston comes out of his retirement to rescue a young girl and finds himself face to face with Russian gangsters.
The director has been offered the “Magnificent Seven” remake and “The Equalizer” sequel and has decided to helm “Narco Sub.”
The “Olympus Has Fallen” director takes on Fox’s new thriller.
A former black ops commando who faked his death for a quiet life in Boston comes out of his retirement to rescue a young girl and finds himself face to face with Russian gangsters.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Set against the 1936 Olympics in Berlin where Jesse Owens, the son of an Alabama sharecropper, shattered Adolf Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy by winning a record four gold medals in the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash, the long jump and the 400-meter relay.
“Olympus Is Down” helmer eyes tv to film remake.
A Secret Service agent must rescue the President after a group of North Korean militants storm the White House, take hostages, and demand the United States remove military forces from the Korean Peninsula.
