Antoine Fuqua

Antoine Fuqua (born January 19, 1966) is an American film director. His first feature film was the action film The Replacement Killers (1998). He then directed the crime thriller Training Day (2001), in which star Denzel Washington won an Oscar, the action war drama Tears of the Sun (2003), the Arthurian legend film King Arthur (2004), the conspiracy action thriller Shooter (2007), the crime film Brooklyn's Finest (2010), and the action thrillers Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and The Equalizer (2014), which pairs Fuqua with Denzel Washington again.

Movie career

After going to school for electrical engineering, with the hope of going on to fly jets in the military, Fuqua began his career directing music videos for popular artists like Toni Braxton and Prince, and then went on to become a film director. He is perhaps best known for the award-winning film Training Day. Fuqua was scheduled to direct Prisoners, based on a storybook from Aaron Guzikowski, but left the project.

CBS Films has hired Antoine Fuqua to direct a new movie based on a Vince Flynn novel, Consent to Kill.

In March 2011, Fuqua signed on to direct a film featuring the romantic love story between Consort Yang Yuhuan and Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang dynasty. As reported in March 2013, he has stated that he's awaiting for the film project to go through the appropriate Chinese government channels before directing the historical epic film, currently known as The Tang Dynasty.

He was slated to direct Tupac Shakur's official biopic. The project was postponed to allow Fuqua to direct rapper Eminem's second feature film, Southpaw. However, Eminem put the Southpaw film on hold to focus on music. Fuqua moved on to Olympus Has Fallen (2013), an action thriller starring Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman.

In May 2014 20th Century Fox set Fuqua to direct a drug smuggling thriller film Narco Sub which is scripted by David Guggenheim.

Writing career

He co-created After Dark with Wesley Snipes, which was written by Peter Milligan and illustrated by Jeff Nentrup.

Filmography

Music videos

• "Love's Taken Over", Chanté Moore (1992)
• "It's Alright", Chanté Moore (1992)
• "All I See", Christopher Williams (1992)
• "Saving Forever for You", Shanice (1993)
• "The Morning After", Maze featuring Frankie Beverly (1993)
• "Nobody Does It Betta", Mint Condition (1993)
• "Ain't Nobody", Jaki Graham (1994)
• "Somewhere", Shanice (1994)
• "I'm In The Mood", CeCe Peniston (1994)
• "Deep Down", Ladae (1994)
• "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World", Prince (1994)
• "United Front", Arrested Development (1994)
• "For Your Love", Stevie Wonder (1995)
• "Freedom", Various Artists (1995)
• "Gangsta's Paradise", Coolio (1995)
• "Bedtime (Version 2)", Usher Raymond (1998)
• "Blue Angels", Pras (1999)
• "Citizen Soldier", 3 Doors Down (2007)
• "Mirror", Lil Wayne (2011)

Commercials

• Pirelli Tires â€" "The Call" (2006), featuring Naomi Campbell and John Malkovich

References

External links

• Antoine Fuqua at the Internet Movie Database
• Hollywood Reporter story on upcoming The Notorious B.I.G. film (from 2005)
• On Directing with Antoine Fuqua nthWORD Magazine Interview by Gina Ponce, April 2010