THE EQUALIZER 3 Official Trailer Hits A Red-Band Nerve For The Final Chapter Of The Action Trilogy!
“You seem like a man who understands violence…”
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INFINITE: Dylan O’Brien Joins Mark Wahlberg-Led Action Sci-Fi
The Maze Runner trilogy and American Assassin star, actor Dylan O’Brien has reportedly joined the cast of Infinite, according to Justin Kroll at Variety. Kingsman franchise actress Sophie Cookson will also star in the Mark Wahlberg-led sci-fi action thriller which commences shooting this Fall for its August 7, 2020 release.
Antoine Fuqua Circling Historical Action Epic, THE DEVIL SOLDIER
Antoine Fuqua has had a notable run with Sony’s hit entries with The Equalizer and its latest sequel, and time will tell if the prospects turn better for a currently-developing remake of classic gangster opus, Scarface. For now, Deadline‘s most recent coverage on the director has him based at ADME Studios as word of an adaptation of Caleb Carr’s 1995 historical novel, The Devil Soldier, is in the works.
Time-Spanning Thriller, INFINITE, Sets Up At Paramount With ‘The Equalizer’ Helmer Eyed To Direct
(Left) Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images North America; (Right) Gregg DeGuire/Getty Images North AmericaBorys Kit at The Hollywood Reporter has the latest on Antoine Fuqua‘s potential involvement in Paramount’s new thriller, Infinite. The celebrated director of Training Day and the latest two big screen revivals of classic TV drama, The Equalizer, is in talks to helm with Lorenzo di Bonaventura set to produce with Mark Vahradian.
Start The Clock! The Official EQUALIZER 2 Trailer Is Here!
Denzel Washington returns to one of his signature roles in the first sequel of his career. Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed – but how far will he go when that is someone he loves?
Pedro Pascal Is Up To Join THE EQUALIZER 2
It’s funny. I haven’t had a lot of incentive to get into such a variety of streaming TV programs what with all the amime I’m already taking in. However, being already familiar with the work of actor Pedro Pascal and reading of his latest attachment to The Equalizer 2 for Sony Pictures and Escape Artists, I’m actually inclined now to check out Netflix’s Wagner Moura-led crime series, Narcos when I get around to it.
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Rolls Out A New IMAX Poster
As far as remakes and reboots go, the 2014 adaptation of hit TV series, The Equalizer, seems to signal that director Antoine Fuqua knows how to gel with certain properties on par for big screen prospects. Thus, his latest comes by way of another remake classic, The Magnificent Seven, previously iterated by John Sturges with respect to late film auteur Kurosawa Akira.
Landing our main roster of heroes and villians in the old West, Fuqua reunites with actors Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke among an ensemble cast that sees the heroes take on an evil industrialist. The most recent trailer from July certainly lends an appealing view for Fuqua’s treatment while we may very well get a second trailer with the film currently due in just over three weeks. In the meantime, the marketing campaign continues as per the current rollout of character vignettes, and Fandango’s exclusive presentation of the new IMAX poster which you can view below ahead of the film’s TIFF premiere on September 8, and wide theatrical release on September 23.
Director Antoine Fuqua brings his modern vision to a classic story in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures’ and Columbia Pictures’ “The Magnificent Seven.” With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), the desperate townspeople employ protection from seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers and hired guns – Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington), Josh Farraday (Chris Pratt), Goodnight Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke), Jack Horne (Vincent D’Onofrio), Billy Rocks (Byung-Hun Lee), Vasquez (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), and Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier). As they prepare the town for the violent showdown that they know is coming, these seven mercenaries find themselves fighting for more than money.
Universal's SCARFACE Seeks Antoine Fuqua To Direct
Director Antoine Fuqua is getting a terrific start to his Fall this year. His newest remade Western spectacle, The Magnificent Seven, set to open this year’s Toronto International Film Festival on September 8 before opening wide just a few weeks later, and in the wake of already earning his approval among the remake crowd for his take on the 2014 revenge/redemption actioner, The Equalizer.
That said, we now bring our attention to Brian DePalma’s own remade hit gangster opus for Universal Pictures, Scarface, which became an instant classic since its release in 1983 with respect to the 1932 original from Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson. Here with actresses Michelle Pfeiffer and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and actor Stephen Bauer, it was Al Pacino who stole the show with his visceral and iconic portrayal of Tony Montana, a Cuban political refugee whose ruthless race to achieve the American dream within Florida’s criminal underworld came with a price ultraviolently paid in a hail of cocaine, bullets and blood.
Attempts at a sequel and a remake have been well underway since 2001 with little progress on nabbing a director while Jonathan Herman updated previous versions of a script from earlier writers. This now brings us to Deadline‘s own breaking news of Fuqua’s own possible movement toward helming the movie for Universal, with a plot that will likely set its similar rags-to-riches story in contemporary Los Angeles.
Further updates await while we’ve yet to know if the Southpaw helmer will take another stab at The Equalizer for its upcoming sequel from Sony. We’ll learn more soon enough, it seems. At any rate, stay tuned for more updates!
Fuqua, Bruckheimer To Bring TRAINING DAY To Television
Courtesy of Warner Bros.
If you’ve been to the movies at all in the past few weeks and managed to catch Antoine Fuqua‘s latest boxing underdog drama, Southpaw, there’s a good chance you’ve had a blast. So feel free to chalk that one up as another wicked addition to your theater going experience amid Fuqua‘s growing resumè what with the gems he’s brought to the fray in the last two decades, namely his critically and commerically-acclaimed 2001 cop drama, Training Day.
Indeed it was a film to take note of if you love the crime genre or anything with actor Denzel Washington in it; The 2001 film joins Washington with actor Ethan Hawke in the story of decorated LAPD narc, Alonzo Harris, whose methods are executed with peculiar shades of grey as he takes rookie cop, Jake Hoyt out on assessment, only for things to go awry when Hoyt’s life is put in danger thanks to Harris’s crooked dealings. The film earned Washington an Academy Award win with a nomination to Hawke for Best Supporting Actor, and with this, it’s obvious that the film has stood the test of time with news from Deadline that Fuqua, along with Jerry Bruckheimer, is taking measures to advance a television series that sets the film fifteen years later.
The report adds there will be twists to the characters with a script by Gangster Squad scribe Will Beall while Fuqua may executive produce as well as direct the pilot. The news comes just a day after it was confirmed that Ryan Phillippe would be leading USA Network’s small screen adaptation of Fuqua‘s 2007 film, Shooter.
It’s pretty fair to say at this point that we’ll be seeing plenty of Fuqua in the coming years. He’s gotten some amazing work done as of late with returning to Washington for The Equalizer last year and now all eyes are on the upcoming September 23, 2016 release of The Magnificent Seven while we wait to learn if he will return to direct The Equalizer 2 for its September 29, 2017 debut.
Stay tuned for more info.
Watch How Jake Gyllenhaal Transforms Into The Lead Role For Boxing Drama, SOUTHPAW!
From director Antoine Fuqua (TRAINING DAY) and writers Kurt Sutter (SONS OF ANARCHY) and Richard Wenk (THE MECHANIC) comes SOUTHPAW – the story of Billy “The Great” Hope, Junior Middleweight Boxing Champion of the World. When tragedy strikes and he loses it all, Billy enters the battle of his life as he struggles to become a contender once again and win back those he loves.
SOUTHPAW Gets An Extended TV Spot
From director Antoine Fuqua (TRAINING DAY) and writers Kurt Sutter (SONS OF ANARCHY) and Richard Wenk (THE MECHANIC) comes SOUTHPAW – the story of Billy “The Great” Hope, Junior Middleweight Boxing Champion of the World. When tragedy strikes and he loses it all, Billy enters the battle of his life as he struggles to become a contender once again and win back those he loves.
Two More Join Fuqua's THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
It’s been a few days since MGM’s forthcoming Western reboot, The Magnificent Seven announced at least one more key role in the form of actor Peter Sarsgaard who will play the villain, via Variety. Since then it’s also been stated that actor Jason Momoa dropped out after his name began circulating a few weeks ago, but casting has moved on with at least two more now in the mix.
Deadline reports that actors Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and Martin Sensmeier will play the respective roles of “Vasquez” and “Red Harvest”, joining lead actor Denzel Washington in a remake of director John Sturges’s titular 1960 Western adaptation of an earlier Kurosawa classic. The new film reunites Washington will his Training Day and The Equalizer helmer Antoine Fuqua from scribe John Lee Hancock’s final draft which centers on a group of five outlaws hired to protect a small mining town from a ruthless gold baron.
Actress Haley Bennett and actors Ethan Hawke, Chris Pratt, Wagner Mouran, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Byung-hun Lee round out the current cast for the film’s expected release of January 13, 2017. Fuqua‘s latest film, boxing drama Southpaw starring Jake Gyllenhaal will open on July 24 courtesy of TWC.
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