In Hollywood, everyone is forced to get used to missed opportunities, especially when one has been deep in the trenches trying to get a project made. There are many stories of actors and directors who were marginally close to landing a film before something fell apart ahead of production and things unfortunately didn’t work out. Despite an impressive filmography, director Antoine Fuqua says that this very situation happened to him involving a project with Denzel Washington, and it’s still one that gets to the filmmaker 17 years later despite having made five movies with Washington.
Despite directing Training Day with Denzel Washington, the studio replaced him at the last minute for Washington’s great gangster movie. Read More