So long as everything goes according to plan on The Equalizer 2, Fuqua will thereafter move onto the aforementioned Black Panther Party drama – a film that Fuqua has been wanting to make for some time now.
Fresh off his work on last year’s remake of The Magnificent Seven, director Antoine Fuqua has reportedly set his sights on an original drama about the Black Panther Party.
Filming on The Equalizer sequel begins this fall, with Washington and Fuqua aiming to serve up more vigilante justice in the grimy Equalizer universe for a 2018 theatrical release.
Deadline is reporting that Fuqua has just signed a first-look deal with Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, in order to bring The Equalizer 2 and other percolating projects to life in the near future – most notably including an original drama about the life and times of the late Black Panther Party revolutionary Fred Hampton.