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Will Smith to star in slave drama based on harrowing historical picture
Will Smith is to team up with director Antoine Fuqua for Emancipation, a drama based on real story of a slave who escaped a Louisiana plantation to freedom during the American Civil War.
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Luca Guadagnino to direct 'Scarface' remake: how did we finally get here?
Say hello to the latest director.
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‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Scribe to Write Antoine Fuqua’s ‘Scarface’ Reimagining (EXCLUSIVE)
After helping create iconic gangsters on shows like “The Sopranos” and “Boardwalk Empire,” Terence Winter is now ready to tackle another famous crime figure. Sources tell Variety, Winter has signed on to do a polish of Jonathan Herman’s latest draft of Universal’s new retelling of the “Scarface” story. Given Winter’s expertise creating such characters, and the fact that Winter has real-life relationships... <a href="http://variety.com/2016/film/news/terence-winter-scarface-reimagining-antoine-f
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How Ethan Hawke Forced a 'Training Day' Reunion With 'The Magnificent Seven'
The film became a box-office success, but more significantly earned a first acting Oscar nomination for Ethan Hawke and a first Best Actor win for Denzel Washington. The trio reteams in the new Western The Magnificent Seven, and Hawke says he had to go rogue to plan the reunion. Hawke and Washington had both worked with Fuqua separately in the decade-and-a-half since Training Day, the former in 2009’s Brooklyn’s Finest and the latter in 2014’s The Equalizer.
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The Magnificent Seven: Why it was important the remake had a multicultural cast
The Magnificent Seven ride again in this weekend’s big budget retelling of John Sturges’ iconic western – itself a remake of Akira Kurasawa’s ‘Seven Samurai’ – but director Antoine Fuqua is keen to stress his film isn’t a remake. One of the most notable changes is that four of the seven gunslingers, who join forces to defend the threatened Frontier town, are played by non-white actors, and star Denzel Washington thinks the film offers a more realistic representation of the Wild West than the ov
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Antoine Fuqua returns for The Equalizer 2
‘The Equalizer’ director will return for the sequel. During an interview with Collider, the film’s producer Todd Black confirmed that director Antone Fuqua will return for ‘The Equalizer 2’… and gave a quick update on how the film is coming along. “We start shooting right after Labor Day, maybe right before Labor Day depending on Denzel’s schedule.
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Bill Paxton Will Play Lead In Training Day Sequel
Antoine Fuqua’s CBS sequel to ‘Training Day’ will star Bill Paxton as the equivalent to Denzel Washington’s crooked cop from the 2001 movie. In an interesting turn of events, the follow-up will be set 15 years after the original that took to the streets with Washington’s Alonzo Harris and trainee Jake Hoyte (played by Ethan Hawke). Paxton will assume the role of Frank Rourke, a corrupt LAPD Detective, with the role of trainee still not cast.
