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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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Dr Phil Sued By Ex-Employee Who Claims She Was Held Hostage

Leah Rothman claims in her lawsuit she was ordered in on her day off, along with 300 other employees, where she says everyone gathered in a room and then Phil ordered the doors locked. She claims he said someone had leaked internal info to the media, and he had contacted the “Feds” because the info was transmitted “over state lines.”

Rothman claims Phil said, “If you f*** with me, I’ll f*** with you” and used other profanities in the meeting.

The employee says she began “experiencing emotional distress from the verbal assault of Dr. Phil which was magnified by the confined space …” She says it amounted to false imprisonment.

And Rothman says, she “saw cue cards in Dr. Phil’s hands” from which he read.

She says Phil and the other brass already knew the source of the leak, but they wanted to make a point.

And she claims, the Executive in Charge of Production told her Phil “got joy out of the process and in scaring his employees.”

Rothman goes on to say the whole thing made her a nervous wreck and she had to quit … and now claims it was “constructive termination.”

TMZ reached out to Dr. Phil’s spokesperson, who declined comment.