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Angela Bassett is joining the cast of Olympus Has Fallen , Nu Image/Millennium’s White House-set action thriller starring Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart . Antoine Fuqua is directing the movie, which is competing with Sony’s White House Down for Die Hard-like movie set in the White House. Butler is an unlikely Secret Service agent trying to stop Korean terrorists who have taken over the White House. Eckhart is playing the president.  Bassett will play the Secret Service director. The script is by first-time scribes Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt. Mark Gil, Gerard Butler and Alan Siegel are producing. Basset is readying to direct an adaptation of the Percival Everett novel Erasure with TD Jakes Entertainment producing. Please Leave A Comment- Source- THR

Mid-way through 2010 it was announced that “ Training Day ” director Antoine Fuqua had anointed himself the captain of a biopic about slain rapper Tupac Shakur .The plan was to shoot in September. Meantime, Fuqua said he’d be opening his door to anyone that thinks they can do a good “Outlaw, Outlaw, Outlaw (They came in to sin)..Outlaw, Outlaw, Outlaw (Dear God, I wonder could you save me?)” “I want to discover someone new. I want to discover a lot of new people if I can. Obviously I’m going to have to put some people in it that you know, just because actors have different skills. I want to go to the streets and find him anywhere he might be in the world.” Today we’ve an update on the film, which is set up over at Morgan Creek. Seems the film is gearing up for an April start in Los Angeles. The official synopsis :  “The rise and fall of TUPAC SHAKUR is chronicled, from his days attending the Baltimore School of the Arts as a teenager, to his decision to leave his mother’s dead-

Tupac Shakur Has Found His Writers For Upcoming Biopic Oscar-nominated screenwriters Stephen J. Rivele and Chris Wilkinson (Ali, Nixon) have just been hired to write the Tupac Shakur biopic, which means the Antoine Fuqua -directed film could begin shooting by mid-November. (No cast yet; Fuqua is looking for an unknown to play the late rapper.) While the writing partners are known for adapting true lives and stories — they also worked on the Moneyball script, and an upcoming Jackie Robinson story — Wilkinson tells Vulture that the key to this script is an approach that “is not in any way biopic-y.” A previous version of the script was largely documentary in style, simply laying out the facts of the slain rapper-poet-actor's brief 25-year life. But Wilkinson says that their new version will instead center on the last day of Tupac's life, flashing back to show the final four years leading up to it. Rivele admits that "I knew nothing about [Shakur]" before diving

Antoine Fuqua To Direct A Tupac Biopic Training Day director Antoine Fuqua has confirmed that his next movie will be a biopic about rapper Tupac .  Fuqua revealed that the project has just been greenlit by Morgan Creek chairman James G. Robinson and will go in front of cameras later this year. "It looks like we're doing Tupac Shakur's movie next in September, that's what I've been starting up and working on now," he said. "I've been working on that for a while with Morgan Creek and Jim Robinson. I just got the greenlight from him and we're going in September. I've just started to prep that." Fuqua added that he is hoping to find an unknown actor to portray the iconic hip-hop star, who was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. "That's the goal, I want to discover someone new," he explained. "I want to discover a lot of new people if I can. Obviously I'm going to have to put some people in it t

Bruce Willis To Star In Antoine Fuqua's "The Tomb" Summit Entertainment is in early talks with Bruce Willis to star in the prison escape drama The Tomb , with Antoine Fuqua circling to direct. Willis is in talks to play Ray Breslin, the world’s foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars. The script was written by Miles Chapman and rewritten by Jason Keller, and Robbie Brenner and Mark Canton are producing. The hope is to fast track the film. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Deadline

Brooklyn's Finest Red Band Trailer Overture Films has given us a red band trailer for the upcoming film Brooklyn's Finest , from the guy who brought us Training Day director Antoine Fuqua. Brooklyn's Finest is an American crime film starring Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke and Don Cheadle. It is directed by Antoine Fuqua, and written by Michael C. Martin, a one-time subway flagger from East New York. Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths. The cast for this movie is a who's who in Hollywood. Richard Gere,Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle, Vincent D'Onofrio,Jesse Williams,Ellen Barkin And The Man Wesley Snipes, finally in an another major motion picture, and it's not straight to DVD. Movie is due out March 5th Related News- Brooklyn's Finest New Trailer Featuring Don Cheadle Please Leave A Comment- Source- Comingsoon

Brooklyn's Finest New Trailer Featuring Don Cheadle Hulu got there hand on an Exclusive trailer for the upcoming film Brooklyn's Finest. The film stars Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, and Wesley Snipes. Plot Summary In the course of one chaotic week, the lives of three conflicted New York City police officers are dramatically transformed by their involvement in a massive drug operation. Burned-out veteran Eddie Dugan (Richard Gere) is just one week away from his pension and a fishing cabin in Connecticut. Narcotics officer Sal Procida (Ethan Hawke) has discovered there is no line he will not cross to provide a better life for his long-suffering wife and seven children. And Clarence "Tango" Butler (Don Cheadle) has been undercover so long his loyalties have started to shift from his fellow police officers to his prison buddy Caz (Wesley Snipes), one of Brooklyn's most infamous drug dealers. With personal and work pressures bearing down on them, each man fa

Antoine Fuqua To Direct "Consent to Kill" Antoine Fuqua will direct spy thriller "Consent to Kill" for CBS Films with Lorenzo DiBonaventura and Nick Wechsler producing. Script, penned by Jonathan Lemkin, is adapted from the 2005 novel of the same name by Vince Flynn and centered on counterterrorism agent Mitch Rapp. Studio's keeping the logline under wraps. In Flynn's story, Rapp battled a vengeful Saudi billionaire, an ex - East German Stasi spy and a husband-and-wife team of assassins -- all while dealing with a knee injury. Fuqua's credits include "Training Day," "Tears of the Sun" and "Shooter." He most recently directed "Brooklyn's Finest," starring Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle and Richard Gere with Overture due to release March 5. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Variety

Brooklyn's Finest Movie Trailer. What A Cast Brooklyn's Finest is an American crime film starring Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke and Don Cheadle. It is directed by Antoine Fuqua, and written by Michael C. Martin, a one-time subway flagger from East New York. Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths. The cast for this movie is a who's who in Hollywood. Richard Gere,Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle, Vincent D'Onofrio,Jesse Williams,Ellen Barkin And The Man Wesley Snipes, finally in an another major motion picture, and it's not straight to DVD. This is going to be a hot movie when the film comes out. Again what a cast. Look for the Movie to come out March 5,2010 Please Leave A Comment-