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 Hashimotos 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 Wooproduced 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 Brooklyns 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 cocreated the comicbook 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 Shakurs official biopic The project was postponed to allow Fuqua to direct rapper Eminems 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 drugsmuggling thriller film Narco Sub which is scripted by David Guggenheim