Another day, another movie Antoine Fuqua says he’s going to direct. Few people in Hollywood like signing up for films (and leaving them again) at the rate Training Day and Brooklyn’s Finest helmer Antoine Fuqua does, but according to Variety he’s currently in talks to direct Hunter Killer. He’s taking over from Salt director Phillip Noyce, who left the project last month.
Hunter Killer is about a new submarine captain who teams up with a Navy SEAL team to rescue the Russian president. They must also stop a Russian general who is behind a military coup before he can start World War III. It’s like the Cold War never ended!
Jamie Moss (Street Kings), Arne Schmidt (XXX: State of the Union), and John Kolvenbach wrote the screenplay for Hunter Killer, which is adapted from the Don Keith and George Wallace novel, Firing Point. Shooting is scheduled to start this winter, presumably with Fuqua behind the camera (although with his track record, don’t bet on it).