Antoine Fuqua Offered ‘Olympus Has Fallen’

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• I love Antoine Fuqua and think he’s very talented. I’d love to see what he could do with Olympus Has Fallen. Seems like it might be kind of a departure for him. I know he’d be good with the Chicago crime drama since he’s done films in that vein before.

  Comment by The Talk Diva — Tuesday April 10, 2012 @ 4:06pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The report states at the bottom Roland Emmerich signed to direect
  White House down. Is that rumored or actual fact he signed.?

  Comment by bettheduck — Tuesday April 10, 2012 @ 4:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’d bang either one of these films. And if either director got mouthy, I’d bang them too. There’s not a damn thing I won’t lay pipe to and that’s just the way it is.

  Comment by theRobotard8000 — Tuesday April 10, 2012 @ 4:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Good for him. Hope it’s a hit. He’s overdue.

  Comment by Curtis Scoon — Tuesday April 10, 2012 @ 5:43pm PDT  Reply to this post

• What the heck is happening to Gerard Butler’s career? The guy seems all over the place, from Oscar-baiting drama dreck (“Machine Gun Preacher”) to Romantic (but not really) Comedy (allegedly, because I did not laugh) fare such as “The Ugly Truth”. And yet the dude STILL gets A-list roles. I mean he hasn’t been good in anything since “300″. And his latest “big’ hit, “Machine Gun Preacher”, flopped so much that it has yet to be released on DVD, inexplicably late if you ask me. Yet I gotta tip my hat to Butler because he’s seemingly Teflon (either that, or he has a killer agent) and just keeps pulling in the big bucks even if he seemingly doesn’t deserve them, judging by his Box Office run, excluding “300″

  Comment by bobby the saint — Tuesday April 10, 2012 @ 6:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • I’m not the biggest Butler fan, but he can deliver — UGLY TRUTH & LAW ABIDING CITIZEN & yes, even BOUNTY HUNTER were all mid-budget programmers that over-performed. UGLY TRUTH did over 200M worldwide if I recall.

    He got great reviews in CORIOLANUS, a bold movie that didn’t pander to anyone. MPG was kind of a dud, but it was not a lazy or particularly safe choice.

    Yes, there are some duds in there as well (GAMER), but I give him credit for mixing things up. Actors of both sexes often get stuck in their own little ruts (Kate Hudson anyone?), Butler is at least trying different things.

    p.s. this is an Avi Lerner movie — not quite an A-List project.

    Comment by Ted D. — Tuesday April 10, 2012 @ 9:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Training Day was a great film. But that was 11 years ago. Since then he’s made Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter, and Brooklyn’s Finest. With a record like that it’s astounding that he continues to attach himself to every project in town.

  Comment by carolyn — Wednesday April 11, 2012 @ 12:56am PDT  Reply to this post

• “King Arthur” is a terrific film. Fuqua made each knight a fighting machine. The broken ice scenes were amazing. The Vikings were believably cruel. I had never heard of Fuqua but I sensed that he had uncanny insight into how men think.

  Comment by foreman — Wednesday April 11, 2012 @ 4:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I will take a serviceable black director with a hit or miss box office track record receiving big budget job offers just like every serviceable white director with a hit or miss box office track record as a net gain by Hollywood standards.

  Comment by Funkdubious — Wednesday April 11, 2012 @ 4:56pm PDT  Reply to this post