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Antoine Fuqua and Spike Lee Team Up for Adaptation of Graphic Novel MISS: BETTER LIVING THROUGH CRIME
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It’s been twenty years since Do the Right Thing but Spike Lee has continued to grow and innovate as a filmmaker, pushing himself to work outside his comfort zone while never completely leaving his deep-seated convictions about race in America.
It’s been eight years since Training ...
Antoine Fuqua gets Better Living Through Crime
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Antoine Fuqua will direct the adaptation of graphic novel Miss: Better Living Through Crime. Spike Lee has signed on to executive produce the movie, which focuses on Nola and Slim who forge an unlikely crime partnership. How unlikely? Nola is a white girl kicked out of an orphanage and living on the streets with her wits. Slim is a black pimp with a dodgy past and together they become hired killers. Red Tails writer John Ridley is hard at work adapting the source, which was created by Philippe Thirault, Marc Riou and Mark Vigouroux. [Source: Variety] Glad to see Fuqua and ...
Antoine Fuqua, Spike Lee eye ‘Crime’
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Antoine Fuqua Adapts "Miss" Thing
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Antoine Fuqua ("King Arthur," "Training Day") will direct a big screen adaptation of graphic novel "Miss: Better Living Through Crime" for Vigilante Entertainment says Variety.
The story revolves around Nola and Slim, two unlikely partners in crime in the early 1900s in New York. Nola is a poor white girl who has learned to survive by hook or by crook since being expelled from the orphanage.
Slim is a black pimp with an uncertain past, trying to keep one foot out of the grave. The story revolves around a poor white girl and a black pimp who forge a partnership as killers for hire.
John Ridley ("Red Tails") is adapting the ...
Fuqua directing comic Miss: Better Living Through Crime
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AntoineFuqua.jpg Antoine Fuqua is set to direct the adaptation of a comic book/graphic novel called Miss: Better Living Through Crime by Philippe Thirault, Marc Riou and Mark Vigouroux. The comic tells the story of a prostitute and her pimp who team up and begin a huge crime spree in the early 1900's. It sounds an interesting story, kind of like a mixed up Bonnie and Clyde story, and in the hands of Antoine Fuqua it could be absolutely superb. The story, according to Variety through ...
Antoine Fuqua Teams Up With Spike Lee For 'Living Better Through Crime'
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[image] " Training Day " director Antoine Fuqua is set to return to yet another film about crime and criminals, with an adaptation of the French graphic novel " Miss: Better Living Through Crime " written by Philippe Thirault, Marc Riou and Mark Vigouroux . The project, being produced by Spike Lee , follows a black pimp and poor white girl in early 1900s New York who become killers for hire. John Ridley , who recently wrote the forthcoming " Red Tails " for George Lucas will be adaptating the pretty cool sounding premise for the big screen. Let's just hope this project goes a bit more smoothly from production to the cinemas than Fuqua's ...
Fuqua is Living Through Crime
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What a surprise, there’s another comic book adaptation that’s on the way. This time it’s in the form of Miss: Better Living Through Crime, a project that will be directed by Antoine Fuqua. The feature will be executive produced by Spike Lee in this big screen rendition of the mini graphic novel series.
Newly minted banner Vigilante Entertainment is developing the project, which revolves around Nola and Slim, two unlikely partners in crime in the early 1900s in New York. Nola is a poor white girl who has learned to survive by hook or by crook since being expelled from the orphanage. Slim is a black pimp with an ...
Training Day Director Fuqua Finds Better Living Through Crime
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... Fuqua Finds Better Living Through Crime Antoine Fuqua has found only moderate success with his films since Training Day , and Brooklyn's Finest has yet to see a release at all, so I guess he's figured he'll try something completely different. A story about a white orphan girl and a black pimp going on a crime spree in 1920s and 30s New York sounds unique enough, but when you add that it's based on a graphic novel, Fuqua really seems to be swinging for the fences on this one. Variety reports that Spike Lee, who's never been known to take on a boring idea, will be executive ...
Spike Lee Wants to Make a Criminally Good Film
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... orphan girl and a pimp team up and become killers for hire.
Originally written by Mark Riou, Philippe Thirault, and Mark Vigouroux, Miss: Better Living Through Crime will be adapted by John Ridley (Red Tails).
For those of you who know the graphic novel, do you think Lee and Fuqua can pull off the adaptation? And for those of you who don't, would you want to see a film with these unlikely characters? Because I know I would.
Source: Variety
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'Precious' Director Circles 'Selma' & Antoine Fuqua's Life of Crime
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The men behind Precious and Shooter are going back in time, according to Variety:
Having had wild success with Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Lee Daniels is itching to go historical for his next feature. He's in "advanced negotiations" to helm Selma, a big-buzz Civil Rights-era drama penned by Paul Webb (Lincoln). The film, which would team him with Slumdog Millionaire producer Christian Colson, focuses on the marches between Selma and Montgomery in 1965, which were the peak of the Civil Rights movement. This means that while prospects of a Martin ...
Spike, Fuqua Enjoy 'Better Living Through Crime'
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... for an adaptation of the graphic novel Miss: Better Living Through Crime. Variety indicates Fuqua will direct and the Knicks' biggest fan will produce, but this still qualifies as a Spike Lee Joint, I believe. ...
