3 Big Movies Competing for Fuqua
Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) is up to direct three high-profile movies including a remake of The Magnificent Seven and Ridley Scott’s Narco-Sub.
28 MAY 2014 BY ADAM DILEO
Antoine Fuqua is in high demand. The director has been asked to helm three major studio films after he finishes his current project.
Behind door number one is a return for the second installment of
The Equalizer. Fuqua directed the first film, an adaptation of the popular '80s TV show, for Sony. It doesn’t open until September 26 but it’s testing “through the roof” so a sequel has
already been greenlit. Richard Wenk will return to pen the script and, presumably, star Denzel Washington will return as former intelligence operative turned good Samaritan Robert McCall.
Denzel Washington and Chloe Grace Moretz in The Equalizer.
Door number two holds an offer from MGM to direct a remake of the classic western The Magnificent Seven. The original film, itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, sees seven wild west gunslingers (well, six gunslingers and one
knife-slinger) band together to defend an impoverished town. Nic Pizzolatto (True Detective) is one of the writers and MGM is eyeing Brad Pitt to star.
And finally, door number three: An offer from Fox to direct the Ridley Scott-produced Narco-Sub, which “centers on a notorious Ecuadorian drug lord who forces a disgraced American naval officer to pilot a submarine carrying a huge shipment of cocaine past the United States Coast Guard’s best defenses.”
It’s unclear which project has Fuqua’s favor. For now the director is focusing on
Southpaw, a boxing drama written by Sons of Anarchy’s Kurt Sutter and starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
Via THR
Director Antoine Fuqua Ponders Magnificent Seven, Equalizer 2, Narco-Sub - IGN
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