Antoine Fuqua

Fuqua began his career directing music videos for popular artists such as Toni Braxton, Coolio, Stevie Wonder, and Prince. From 1998 onwards, he began directing feature films, although he has worked on a few music videos since then. In a tribute article for TIME magazine, Fuqua expressed his early respect for Kurosawa as a filmmaker and how Kurosawa influenced his own perspective on filmmaking stating: "(screenwriter Hashimoto's) … working with Akira Kurosawa and Hideo Oguni, was so beautiful and poetic and powerful and heartbreaking. It was all about justice, it was all about sacrifice, and it made me want to be one of those guys". His first feature film was the John Woo-produced action film The Replacement Killers (1998), starring Chow Yun Fat. He then directed the crime thriller Training Day (2001), for which star Denzel Washington won an Academy Award for Best Actor. His next films were 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 (2009), and the action thrillers Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and The Equalizer (2014), the latter of which again pairs Fuqua with Denzel Washington. He co-created the comic-book miniseries After Dark with Wesley Snipes, which was written by Peter Milligan and illustrated by Jeff Nentrup. Fuqua was scheduled to direct Prisoners, based on a storybook from Aaron Guzikowski, but left the project. 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 Southpaw on hold to focus on music and was replaced with Jake Gyllenhaal. In 2010, CBS Films hired Fuqua to direct a new movie based on a Vince Flynn novel, Consent to Kill. In May 2014, 20th Century Fox set Fuqua to direct a drug-smuggling thriller film Narco Sub, which is scripted by David Guggenheim.

Known For

Birth Location Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Born 1966-01-19

Movies

American Dream/American Knightmare as Self (interviewer)
2018
Ghost of the Mountains as Narrator (voice)
2017
Bait as Man (uncredited)
2000

Movies

Michael Director
2025
Rob Peace Producer
2024
The Equalizer 3 Producer
2023
The Equalizer 3 Director
2023
Emancipation Executive Producer
2022
Emancipation Director
2022
Bullet Train Producer
2022
The Guilty Producer
2021
The Guilty Director
2021
Infinite Executive Producer
2021
Infinite Director
2021
The Equalizer 2 Producer
2018
The Equalizer 2 Director
2018
The Gift Director
2017
2016
Southpaw Producer
2015
Southpaw Director
2015
The Equalizer Director
2014
2013
2013
Brooklyn's Finest Executive Producer
2010
2010
Shooter Director
2007
The Call Director
2006
Bastards of the Party Executive Producer
2005
King Arthur Director
2004
2004
Tears of the Sun Director
2003
Training Day Director
2001
Bait Director
2000
1998
Inside Out 4 Director
1992
Narco Sub Director
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The Street Director
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