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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

Marton Csokas Getting Villainous For The Equalizer

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Marton-CsokasAfter years of trying, it seems like the film adaptation of The Equalizer is finally going to happen, with Marton Csokas (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) signing on to play the main villain, opposite Denzel Washington and Chloe Moretz.

Washington will play Robert McCall, a former intelligence officer who now lives a solitary existence while holding down a job at Home Depot. He is forced to spring back into action when an act of kindness towards a teenage prostitute (Chloe Moretz) lands him in hot water with the Russian mafia. Marton Csokas will play a deadly fixer for the Russian mob.

Antoine Fuqua is set direct from a screenplay by Richard Wenk (The Expendables 2). The movie is based on the 1980s TV series The Equalizer, starring Edward Woodward. Production is scheduled to begin this summer in Boston.

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Antoine Fuqua May Direct The Equalizer, With Denzel Washington Starring

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antoine-fuquaA movie version of The Equalizer has been in the works for a long time, and it finally looked like it was moving forward with Denzel Washington starring and Rupert Wyatt directing. However recently Wyatt became the latest in a fairly long list of helmer to pick up and then drop the project.

Now Olympus Has Fallen director Antoine Fuqua is in early talks to direct The Equalizer, according to Deadline. Washington is still attached to star, and is probably more than happy with the idea of Fuqua helming, seeing as he won an Oscar for the director’s Training Day.

Richard Wenk (16 Blocks) wrote the screenplay, based on the hit TV series The Equalizer, which ran for four seasons between 1985 and 1989. The show was about Robert McCall (Edward Woodward), a former covert operative who lives a life of solitude and devotes himself to helping others in need. The movie will follow that basic premise, with Denzel Washington portraying a modern character who truly despises any form of injustice.

The $50 million movie is eyeing a late spring/early summer shoot in Boston.

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Olympus Has Fallen Trailer – Gerard Butler takes on terrorists

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The White House isn’t going to do well this year, as it’s being taken over by terrorists in both Roland Emmerich’s White House Down and Antoine Fuqua’s Olympus Has Fallen. It’s the latter which arrives first on March 22nd in the US and April 19th in the UK, and now the trailer for the movie has arrived.

It all looks very Die Hard at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, with Gerard Butler as an ex-special forces officer taken off the President’s security detail after an accident. However when international terrorists attack the White House and take the President (Aaron Eckhart) hostage. It also stars Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett and Ashley Judd.

While the trailer does suggest a movie that’ll be completely over the top, it could also be quite fun. We’ll have to wait and see.

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Olympus Has Fallen For Melissa Leo & Rick Yune

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The battle of the White House taken over by terrorists movies is heating up, with barely a day going by without news of a new actor being added to the cast of either Olympus Has Fall of White House Down. Both films essentially have the same story, with bad guys taking control of the White House and Secret Service agents needing to take it back.

Yesterday James Woods signed up for White House Down, and today it’s the turn of Olympus Has Fallen, with THR reporting that Melissa Leo and Rick Yune have joined the cast. The movie, directed by Antoine Fuqua goes into production this week, with Gerard Butler in the lead role.

Leo is in talks to play a tough secretary of Defense who cracks when tortured. Yune meanwhile will play the villain of the movie, a North Korean posing as a South Korean ministerial aide who is described as a sociopathic monster. Aaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett, Cole Hauser and Radha Mitchell also star.

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Olympus Has Fallen For Dylan McDermott

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Olympus Has Fallen already has Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Angela Bassett onboard, and now it’s added a new name, with Variety reporting that Dylan McDermott has signed up for the Antoine Fuqua movie.

The film sees the White House taken over by terrorists and Butler’s Secret Service agent having to take it back. McDermott is set to play a fellow Secret Service agent, although there’s no info on exactly how he fits into a plot. Eckhart will be the President.

It’s not the only film with this plot of the cards, as Roland Emmerich is putting together White House Down, with Channing Tatum in the lead role.

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Olympus Has Fallen For Angela Bassett

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Just yesterday, Aaron Eckhart signed up to play the President in Olympus Has Fallen, and now the film has another star as Variety reports that Angela Bassett will also appear in the movie, which Antoine Fuqua is directing.

The film centres on Gerard Butler’s former Secret Service agent who tries to save the White House after terrorists attack the presidential residence. The plot has been described as Die Hard in the White House. Bassett is due to play the head of the Secret Service, in charge of protecting the President.

The movie is quite similar to Roland Emmerich’s White House Down, which is also racing into production with Jamie Foxx as the President and Channing Tatum as the Secret Service Agent who must take the White House back. Both movies will shoot later this year for release in 2013.

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Aaron Eckhart Joins Olympus Has Fallen

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The White House is gonna be in trouble at cinemas next year, as two movies are in the works that see terrorists taking over the President’s house and Secret Service agents having to take it back. Now Antoine Fuqua’s Olympus Has Fallen has got its US President, as Variety reports that Aaron Eckhart has signed up to play the role.

The film centres on Gerard Butler’s former Secret Service agent who tries to save the White House after terrorists attack the presidential residence. The plot has been described as Die Hard in the White House. The movie is quite similar to Roland Emmerich’s White House Down, which is also racing into production with Jamie Foxx as the President and Channing Tatum as the Secret Service Agent who must take the White House back.

Both movies will shoot later this year for release in 2013.

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Antoine Fuqua To Direct Gerard Butler In Olympus Has Fallen

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It’s undoubtedly become more common for film companies to start developing similar projects at the same time, hoping they’ll be first to make it through the development proess and on to cinema screens.

Just last week Roland Emmerich attached himself to the spec screenplay, White House Down, about terrorists taking over the President’s house, and now Antoine Fuqua is in early talks to direct Olympus Has Fallen, which has a rather similar plot.

Gerard Butler is already set to star in this action thriller about a former secret service agent forced to save the White House from a group of bad guys. The script, written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, has been described as Die Hard in the White House.

Due to the Emmerich movie, Nu Image/Millennium Entertainment hopes to move fast on Olympus Has Fallen, with the plan being to start shooting this June. (Source: THR)

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Gerard Buter Is A Hunter Killer

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When Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) signs up to direct a movie, it’s very different to saying he will actually end up helming it, as he does have a tendency to jump from project to project. However, he’s now started casting Huter Killer, so it looks like he might actually make the action-thriller. Variety reports that Gerard Butler is in talks to star in the movie, with Sam Worthington being sought for another role.

The project is based on George Wallace and Don Keith’s upcoming novel, which follows an inexperienced US submarine captain who teams up with a Navy SEAL unit on a mission to rescue an overthrown Russian president. They must also stop a rogue Russian general from igniting World War III. Yep, it’s a plot from a movie of the early 90s, but we’re getting it in the 2010s instead!

Gerard Butler is in discussions to play the submarine captain, Joe Glass, while Sam Worthington is being considered to play Bill Beaman, the Navy SEAL team leader (although it’s not known if Worthington is interested).

Antoine Fuqua is directing Hunter Killer from a screenplay by Jamie Moss, Arne Schmidt, and John Kolvenbach, with shooting scheduled to start this winter.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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