The Movies That Moved Me: Anton Fuqua’s THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS
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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…” That’s at least one line that sticks out in the brand new trailer for Sony Pictures’ The Equalizer 3 starring Denzel Washington and fellow Man On Fire cohort Dakota Fanning and based the hit classic TV series. Antoine Fuqua directs this the third and final installment from a script by returning scribe Richard Wenk with a Fall release set for September in theaters. Also, mind you, mind your surroundings as well when you watch the trailer as it’s very much in red-band territory. It’s Washington in one of the finest and most memorable, and quite possibly one of the most violent and brutal roles of his career, and three films in after other meaty action roles in recent history including in Safe House and The Book Of Eli, he’s lived up to some mighty expectations. Enjoy! Since giving up his life as […]
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. The Equalizer helmer Antoine Fuqua is directing Infinite, telling of a troubled young man haunted by memories of two past lives. He decides to join the ranks of a centuries-old secret society of people who posses total recall of their past lives called the Cognomina. Infinite is written by Ian Shorr whose script takes from D. Eric Maikranz’s 2009 novel, “The Reincarnationist Papers”. The film hails from Paramount with John Zaozirny, and Di Bonaventura Pictures’ Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian producing. Rafi Crohn is exec producing.
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. Penguin Random House describes the publication as follows: With the same flair for history and narrative that distinguished his bestseller, The Alienist, Caleb Carr tells the incredible story of Frederick Townsend Ward, the American mercenary who fought for the emperor of China in the Taiping rebellion, history’s bloodiest civil war. The Devil Soldier is a thrilling, masterfully researched biography of the kind of adventurer the world no longer sees. Fuqua is partnering with Dog Eat Dog producer Mark Earl Burman, and […]
Time-Spanning Thriller, INFINITE, Sets Up At Paramount With ‘The Equalizer’ Helmer Eyed To Direct
Borys 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. Penned by Ian Shorr who also wrote Lin Oeding’s directorial debut, Office Uprising, Infinite centers on a schizophrenic trapped between vivid dreams and questionable memories who becomes the last hope for the titular group of immortals on a mission to defeat an evil mastermind out to destroy Earth. Among his nominal credits, di Bonaventura is also noted as producer on Ben Bray’s vigilante thriller, El Chicano, which is due in Spring 2019. Fuqua is also currently attached to direct the long-developing reinstallment of classic crime opus, Scarface which currently has Diego Luna set to star. Featured: Antoine […]
Start The Clock! The Official EQUALIZER 2 Trailer Is Here!
I’ve been busy in a cave somewhere the last 24 hours doing some editing for an interview which will go live soon. Going forward however, it actually has nothing to do with the latest arrival of the official trailer for Antoine Fuqua’s hugely anticipated sequel, The Equalizer 2, but I’m all for it all the same by the time it opens on July 20 from Sony. Denzel Washington is back in the role that originally inspired the classic CBS TV series of the same name as the monastic, stoic badass, clock-startin’, bone-breakin, people-stabbing-and-stomping do-gooder that all of us cheered for in 2014. 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? Richard Wenk penned the script once more on […]
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. But…yeah. Pascal is in talks now for a starring role opposite returning actor Denzel Washington whose 2014 presentation under helmer Antoine Fuqua not only generated box office promise, but garnered the celebrated actor his first-ever sequel. Due on September 14, 2018, Fuqua, as reported last September, is returning to direct the sequel further adapting its classic television show predecessor of the same name, centered on a former black ops agent who sets out to make the […]
Review: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (2016) Upholds The Western Frontier With Gravitas And Tact
While Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven is a remake of the 1960 film by the same name, I like to think of it as a direct reimagining of its original incarnation of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai from 1954. It bears noting that Kurosawa is, to this day, still Stephen Spielberg’s totemic inspiration behind his every endeavor, which calls to mind the question of how much that influences have made it into those films both thematically and narratively. I would say that the influence manifests like the whimsy of a film student’s interaction with the arguments that give sustenance to a story of camaraderie. A story like this one, especially, that arrives on contact with the bold charisma of a gunslinger. I’m calling it; if this sort of Western is an analog to another form of cinematic expression, it would be to anime a la Voltron or Gundam Wing – a […]
Fuqua Will Return To Direct THE EQUALIZER 2 Starting Next September
This weekend begins the theatrical run of Antoine Fuqua’s latest endeavor, The Magnificent Seven, reinterpreting John Sturges’s own 1960 remake classic inspired by Kurosawa Akira’s earlier epic, Seven Samurai. The film has been on the campaign trail following a string of trailers and promos leading up to its premiere at TIFF earlier this month, and with select cast and crew on deck for the publicity tour as of late, fans and onlookers are getting a little more first-hand insight on the film, which headlines an ensemble cast led by actor Denzel Washington. The film reunites the actor/director duo following their stellar 2001 crime drama, Training Day, and their 2014 reunion, The Equalizer, inspired by the popular 1985 television series of the same name. Joining Washington with actress Chloë Grace-Moretz and actor Martin Csokas, Richard Wenk wrote the script which centered our lead actor in the title role – a former […]
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 […]
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 […]
Meet THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN In The Explosive New Trailer!
If there was ever a director as of late who has compelled me more for a Western, it would be Antoine Fuqua. Thus, we get The Magnificent Seven with actor Denzel Washington leading the way for any and everyone still fond of last year’s The Equalizer and Washington’s Academy Awarded role in 2003’s Training Day. Rooted as a retelling of the classic Jim Sturges remake of Kurosawa Akira’s Seven Samurai, it’s also pretty rewarding for anyone who enjoys good old-fashioned tales of a ragtag band of grey-shaded heroes out to do good. And not for nothing either with fellow Fuqua cohort Ethan Hawke joined by everyone’s favorite raptor whisperer, Chris Pratt, and the beautiful Haley Bennett who looks like she’ll bring more than meets the eye here. SYNOPSIS: Director Antoine Fuqua brings his modern vision to a classic story in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures’ and Columbia Pictures’ The Magnificent Seven. With the […]
Watch The Sizzling New Trailer For THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
I’m already a long sold fan of director Antoine Fuqua, and I don’t say that lightly. I dug The Replacement Killers in 1998 as well as thrillers like Training Day and Shooter. I could probably go on all day about how much I enjoyed his 2014 big screen reboot of The Equalizer but I won’t; that it’s a box office success getting a sequel is enough for me. As for this week, Sony and Columbia are off to spend the rest of the year guaranteeing us another solid piece of work in the reboot category pairing our dear director with a terrific ensemble cast in The Magnificent Seven. Photos and stills from the movie have already begun circulating for the last week or so with images coming out of CinemaCon and as recently as USA Today with actor Denzel Washington leading the way once more in a Fuqua vehicle, and […]
CBS Orders Fuqua’s TRAINING DAY To Pilot
Following news from last summer, Deadline reports that CBS has officiallt ordered a pilot for a small screen adaptation of Antoine Fuqua’s award-winning 2001 crime drama, Training Day. The original film, from Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures, earned actor Denzel Washington an Acadamy Award for Best Actor in the role of a morally bent narcotics detective who take a rookie on his first day out for a department evaluation which exposes murder, corruption and betrayal. Washington starred along with actor Ethan Hawke who earned a nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Cast details are pending but word has it that the new show, to be written by Gangster Squad scribe Will Beall, will put a small spin on the original film’s narrative with the story set to pake place fifteen years after events of the movie, and the ethinicities of both lead characters switched. Fuqua, who initally pitched the project […]
SOUTHPAW Re-Releases In Theaters Today!
Perhaps one of the biggest and most memorable moviegoing experiences of the summer of 2015 has to be director Antoine Fuqua‘s stellar new boxing drama, Southpaw. Kurt Sutter provided the script and was host to a slew of strong performances led by actor Jake Gyllenhaal who fully immersed himself into the role of Billy Hope, a champion boxer forced to redeem himself and fight for his family following a personal tragedy. It was an intense, poignant and thrilling character study with Rachel McAdams and the impressive Oona Laurence on hand, along with supporting actor Forest Whitaker lending his stellar signature craft to the screen, that truly gives you a grounded and inspiring story with a perfectly imperfect protagonist to root for. On top of this, the notion of this film following Gyllenhaal’s accolades in last year’s Nightcrawler a possible Oscar contender is a prospect that The Weinstein Company is clearly keeping in mind right now, and so […]
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 […]
Watch How Jake Gyllenhaal Transforms Into The Lead Role For Boxing Drama, SOUTHPAW!
You can imagine that it’s no easy feat to be an actor and immerse yourself in a role so physically enduring as that of a professional fighter. Academy Award® nominee, actor Jake Gyllenhaal can surely speak from experience with the work he’s put in for the lead role of a champion boxer in the upcoming sports drama, Southpaw, and a new featurette is now running that highlights just a sample of what Gyllenhaal endured to help bring the film to the current forefront of its self-sustaining Oscar hype. SYNOPSIS: 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 […]
Get A Ringside View Of SOUTHPAW In A Full B-Roll
The folks over at Screenslam unveiled the full B-roll of director Antoine Fuqua‘s latest boxing drama, Southpaw. Jake Gyllenhaal stars in the new film scripted by Kurt Sutter in this, a new underdog tale that sees our lead fight back for his family and career amid tragedy and internal struggle, and it’s coming to theaters on July 24. I don’t know about you guys but it feels like this movie needs to be out already. All this hype and we have to wait two more weeks? Insanity. Hope this whets your appetite anyway.
SOUTHPAW Gets An Extended TV Spot
The month of July is kicking off in blockbuster fashion this weekend, but there’s no question that director Antoine Fuqua‘s latest, Southpaw, will prove to be equally explosive in nature. Jake Gyllenhaal is the lead and in full boxing athlete fashion in a story written by Kurt Sutter that sees our golden boy trounced on by an onslaught of tragedy, grief, and almost anything life would through. SYNOPSIS: 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. Rachel McAdams also stars with Curtis Jackson and Forest Whitaker as the major supporting backdrop of this […]
Watch A New Trailer For Antoine Fuqua's SOUTHPAW
If you take away nothing else from the most recent hype behind winning director Antoine Fuqua‘s new boxing drama, Southpaw, you can take the fact that may lend something truly entertaining. Beyond that, anyone familiar with Fuqua’s work can easily expect this one to carry a tone worthy of more than praise with a heavily-engaged Jake Gyllenhaal spearheading such a riveting underdog story written by Kurt Sutter, and a great supporting cast on hand. SYNOPSIS: From acclaimed director Antoine Fuqua (TRAINING DAY) and starring Academy Award® nominated Jake Gyllenhaal (NIGHTCRAWLER, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN) comes a story of tragedy, loss and the painful road to redemption… Billy “The Great” Hope (Gyllenhaal) is the reigning Junior Middleweight Champion whose unorthodox stance, the so-called “Southpaw,” consists of an ineloquent, though brutal, display of offensive fighting…one fueled by his own feelings of inadequacy and a desperate need for love, money and fame. With a beautiful […]