Antoine Fuqua
Antoine Fuqua was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States on January 19th, 1966 and is the Director. At the age of 58, Antoine Fuqua biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Antoine Fuqua (born January 19, 1966) is an American film director and producer.
He has worked mostly in the action and thriller film subgenres, and is best known for his Academy Award-winning film Training Day (2001).
Fuqua began his career as a music video director for well-known artists such as Toni Braxton, Coolio, Stevie Wonder, and Prince.
He began directing feature films from 1998 to 2000.
Fuqua has expressed his admiration for Akira Kurosawa as a filmmaker early in life, as well as an essay about how Kurosawa influenced his own viewpoint on filmmaking.
Early life
Fuqua was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Carlos and Mary Fuqua. He is the nephew of Moonglows record producer and executive Harvey Fuqua. Fuqua paid tribute to screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto, a frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa's, by saying that his work "affected a child from Pittsburgh who lives in the ghetto."
Fuqua outlined how his experience of violence influenced his adolescence and influenced his decision of career.
Fuqua spent time studying electrical engineering with the intention of flying jets in the military before turning to filmmaking and music videos.
Personal life
Lela Rochon and Fuqua were engaged in 1998, and they married on April 9, 1999. Asia Rochon Fuqua was born on July 28, 2002, and his son Brando was born in May 2004. Zachary, Fuqua's son, comes from a previous marriage. He also has two grandchildren.
Fuqua said, "Absolutely." When asked by the BBC in September 2014 if he believes in God, Fuqua replied, "Absolutely." "I believe in God, absolutely."
Career
Fuqua began directing music videos for well-known artists such as Toni Braxton, Stevie Wonder, and Prince. Michelle Pfeiffer was cast in the film Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio, which was used to advertise Jerry Bruckheimer's hit film Dangerous Minds.
Fuqua began working principally as a feature film producer from 1998 to 2006. Fuqua wrote a tribute essay for Time magazine that expressed his early admiration for Kurosawa as a filmmaker and how Kurosawa influenced his own filmmaking view. "[screen writer Hashimoto's] collaborating with Akira Kurosawa and Hideo Oguni was so beautiful and poetic, as well as heartbreaking." It was all about justice, it was all about sacrifice, and it made me want to be one of those guys."
The Replacement Killers (1998), starring Chow Yun Fat and the action comedy Bait (2000) starring Jamie Foxx were John Woo-produced action film The Replacement Killers (1998), John Woolproduced action film The Replacement Killers (1998), starring Jamie Foxx. He then wrote the crime drama Training Day (2001), for which actor Denzel Washington received an Academy Award for Best Actor. His next films were Tears of the Sun (2003), King Arthur (2004), the Arthurian legend film King Arthur (2004), the crime film's Finest (2009), and Olympus Has Fallen (2013), the latter of which pairs Fuqua with Denzel Washington. In 2011, Ethan Hawke, a CIA procedural Fox pilot, was directed by him.
After Dark, written by Peter Milligan and illustrated by Jeff Nentrup, he co-created the comic-book miniseries After Dark. He had intended to direct Tupac Shakur's official biopic, but the initiative was postponed to allow Fuqua to film rapper Eminem's second feature film, Southpaw (2015). Later that day, Eminem left Southpaw to concentrate on his music, and Jake Gyllenhaal was brought on.
His 2016 film was a remake of Kurosawa's 1960 Western The Magnificent Seven, which was an American adaptation of Kurosawa's 1954 film Seven Samurai. Sam Chisolm leads the way.
Fuqua appeared on the Fox medical drama series The Resident's executive producer in early 2018. Denzel Washington played in the main role in his thriller sequel The Equalizer 2 (2018) in the summer of 2018. In June 2021, Fuqua's sci-fi film Infinite, starring Mark Wahlberg and Chiwetel Ejiofor, was released.
Will Smith, a Fuqua and actor, and Will Smith, said in 2021 that their forthcoming film, Emancipation, would not be shot in Georgia because of Georgia's new restrictive voting law. Smith and Fuqua signed a joint statement: "We cannot in good conscience provide economic assistance to a government that introduces regressive voting restrictions" that are designed to restrict voter registration.
He inked a first glance with Netflix on December 3, 2021, and that was more recent. He renamed his production company from Fuqua Films to Hill District Media on the same day. He later signed a multi-year television contract with Paramount Television Studios and MTV Entertainment Studios.