Antoine Fuqua (created January 19, 1966) is an American film director. He directed the movie “Training Day” in addition to “The Replacement Killers”, “Tears of the Sun”, “King Arthur”, “Shooter”, “Brooklyn’s Finest” and “Olympus Has Fallen”. He’s possibly best known for the award winning movie Training Day. Fuqua was scheduled to direct Prisoners, according to a storybook from Aaron Guzikowski, but has left the job. CBS Films has hired Antoine Fuqua to direct a brand new film according to a Vince Flynn novel, Consent to Kill. As reported in March 2013, he’s said that he is expecting for the movie endeavor to go during the correct Chinese government routes before directing the historical epic film, now called The Tang Dynasty. He was slated to direct Tupac Shakur’s official biopic. The job was postponed to permit Fuqua to direct rapper Eminem’s second feature film, Southpaw. Nevertheless, Eminem get the Southpaw movie on hold to concentrate on music. In May 2014 20th Century Fox establish Fuqua to direct a drug smuggling thriller movie Narco Sub that’s scripted by David Guggenheim.
Film director, Film Producer, Music Video Director
Education
West Virginia State University
Nationality
United States of America
Spouse
Lela Rochon (m. 1999)
Children
Asia Rochon Fuqua, Zachary Fuqua, Brando Fuqua
Nicknames
安东尼·福奎阿 , Фукуа, Антуан
Awards
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture, Black Reel Award for Best Director
Nominations
Variety Piazza Grande Award, Prix du Public UBS
Movies
"The Replacement Killers", "Training Days" (2001), "Brooklyn's Finest" (2010), "Shooter", "Tears of the Sun", "King Arthur" (2004), "Mirror", "Citizen Soldier", "The Equalzer" (2014), "Southpaw" (2015)
TV Shows
"It's Alright", "Love's Taken Over", "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World", "All I see", "Roots"
Star Sign
Capricorn
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Trademark
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Most of his films contain politically driven elements and themes.
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I only pay to take my son to the movies, because most of the time I only watch European movies, independent movies, or screen them privately. But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.
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I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.
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My experience of test screenings is that you don't know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept what Joe Blo says - and this guy could just be a frustrated filmmaker, or not paying attention.
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I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.
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Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.
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I like making movies.
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I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.
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I like the opportunity to make films.
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I believe in God, absolutely.
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So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.
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The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort.
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It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that.
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The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D.
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It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
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It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.
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I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.
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I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.
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I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.
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What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.
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'Cause movies are human drama, that's it.
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Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.
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But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.
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Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn't get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn't get along.
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Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.
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Was offered the chance to direct Man on Fire (2004) but turned it down as he was busy working on King Arthur (2004).
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Was originally set to direct American Gangster (2007) in 2004 with Denzel Washington and Benicio Del Toro starring, but production was halted one month before shooting after Universal Pictures canceled the film over budget concerns.
$18 Million
