Category: Hollywood

Suge Knight Fires 4th Lawyer & Hires Michael Jackson’s Old Lawyer

  

Via AllHipHop News– Suge Knight has made an abrupt change in his legal team by firing his lawyer Tom Mesereau, because private information somehow made it to authorities.

Stephen L. Schwartz is the new attorney for the embattled mogul and marks the fifth lawyer for Suge.
Schwartz also represented Michael Jackson in his child molestation case.

For former Death Row owner has pleaded not guilty to murder. Last February, he ran over two men, killing one. Suge alleges the death and injury were the result of self defense.

Antoine Fuqua to Direct ‘Goodfellas’-Style Cartel Movie ‘Wolf Boys’

  

While Antoine Fuqua prepares to release The Magnificent Seven, the director is already lining up his next project. 

In addition to producing the upcoming Training Day series for CBS, Fuqua has signed on to helm Wolf Boys, a movie based on the real-life story of two American teens who get in over their head with a Mexican cartel.

Variety reports that Fuqua will produce and direct Wolf Boys, based on the book by Dan Slater. The story centers on two teens from the US who are recruited to work as hitmen for a Mexican cartel, and the Mexican-American detective who pursues them as he realizes that the War on Drugs is futile — that last bit sounds a little similar to themes explored in Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario, but with the recent re-capture of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and our collective ongoing struggle with the seeming hopelessness of the drug war, cartel stories are drawing more attention.

This isn’t the only new cartel-centric film in the works. Ridley Scott is also set to direct his own drug war movie — The Cartel, based on the book by Don Winslow — while Fuqua’s project has been described as similar to Goodfellas.

Fuqua is set to release The Magnificent Seven, starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt, on September 23. He is also producing and will direct the pilot for CBS’ Training Day TV series.

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