Jake Gyllenhaal is set to reunite with his Southpaw director Antoine Fuqua for The Guilty, a remake of the acclaimed Danish-drama thriller Den Skyldige from filmmaker Gustav Moller, Deadline has revealed. The film take place over the course of a single morning in a 911 dispatch centre, with Gyllenhaal playing Joe Bayler, an operator who […]
Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua to team up for slavery drama Emancipation
Deadline is reporting that Antoine Fuqua and Will Smith are set to work together on Emancipation, a slavery drama based on one of history’s most powerful images, a photograph titled ‘the scourged back’. The scar tissue smothering the back of a runaway plantation slave named Gordon, administered to him on a property owned by John […]
Chris Pratt returning to TV with conspiracy thriller series The Terminal List
Chris Pratt is set to make his return to the small screen courtesy of Amazon, with the streamer snapping up the rights to The Terminal List, a conspiracy thriller series based upon the bestselling novel by Jack Carr. As per Deadline, the series “follows James Reece (Pratt) after his entire platoon of Navy SEALs is […]
Antoine Fuqua’s Quibi series #Freerayshawn gets a poster and trailer
Quibi has unveiled a poster and trailer for the drama-thriller #Freerayshawn, one of the upcoming short-form streaming service’s ‘Movies in Chapters’, which is produced by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) and stars Stephan James (If Beale Street Could Talk) and Laurence Fishburne (Black-ish). The synopsis for #Freerayshaun, as per Deadline, reads: #FreeRayshawn tells the story of […]
Chris Evans in talks for Antoine Fuqua’s Infinite
With his time as the Star-Spangled Avengers most likely over, Avengers: Endgame‘s Chris Evans is looking for new projects to film and Deadline brings word that he has entered talks with Paramount to join Infinite, a sci-fi thriller from Antoine Fuqua (The Equalizer 2) which is based on D. Eric Maikranz’s novel The Reincarnationist Papers. The novel follows Evan Michaels, […]
Antoine Fuqua to adapt The Devil Soldier
Antoine Fuqua (The Equalizer, The Magnificent Seven) has signed on to produce and potentially direct The Devil Soldier, an adaptation of the book of the same name by The Alienist author Caleb Carr. The historical action epic will follow Frederick Townsend Ward, an American outlaw-turned-soldier of fortune who is best known for his military service […]
Antoine Fuqua to direct fantasy action thriller Infinite
THR is reporting that Antoine Fuqua is in talks with Paramount Pictures to direct the fantasy action thriller Infinite, which is being produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers). The film follows “a group of near-immortal men and women who are reincarnated over the centuries and known as ‘the Infinite.’ In order to defeat an evil […]
Kraven the Hunter screenwriter wants Antoine Fuqua to direct
Richard Wenk, the writer of Kraven the Hunter, Sony’s next Spider-Man spinoff, says that he wants to see Antoine Fuqua direct the film. Now that Venom is out in the wild, fans can look forward to plenty more Spider-Man spinoff movies with one of the next being Kraven the Hunter. Richard Wenk is writing the […]
Movie Review – The Equalizer 2 (2018)
The Equalizer 2, 2018. Directed by Antoine Fuqua. Starring Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, Orson Bean, Melissa Leo, and Bill Pullman. SYNOPSIS: Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, but how far will he go when that is someone he loves? Throughout Denzel Washington’s long and varied career he hasn’t […]
Exclusive Interview: Antoine Fuqua discusses The Equalizer 2
Director Antoine Fuqua and star Denzel Washington reunite this week for the UK release of the action thriller The Equalizer 2, and Flickering Myth’s Thomas Harris was fortunate enough to grab some time with the filmmaker to discuss the sequel to the 2014 action thriller. Check it out here, or watch it over on our […]
