Age: 61
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Antoine 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.
Four masked men, thieves, rivals, and friends from the tough streets of 1996 Charlestown - take on a Boston bank at gunpoint. Holding bank manager Claire Keesey hostage and cleaning out the vault was simple. But, Doug MacRay, career criminal/thief, didn't plan on one thing: falling in love with Claire. However, there is a tenacious FBI agent on his trail and following his every move. Doug wants a life away from crime, wanting to live a normal life with Claire. But for Doug and the rest of his crew, there is one final job that he has to do. . . The following feature is rated TV-MA for graphic violence, some explicit sexual content, drug use, crude indecent language The show will follow the same plot as both the book and the movie, with a few changes here and there. Some episodes will explore some of Doug's past and his family while growing up with Jimmy. One episode will explore Claire more as a character, struggling with her job after she held hostage by Doug and his crew. It will also explore some of her troubling past as well. Some of Doug's crew have been described as men in their early 30's (30-35). The time setting is set to 1996, just like the book's timeline.
