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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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Young Thieves Steal Atlanta Pastor’s Car And Money From Church

Rev. Hebrew McDonald said he and some of the members were cleaning up after a dinner, when two young people came in. In the surveillance video Rev. McDonald says one appears to be 16 or 17 years old. He says the other one, who acted as the look out, appeared to be only 10 or 11 years old.

The preacher’s wife, Christine, says her purse was on a table in the Fellowship Hall. She said someone went into her purse, took the money out of her wallet, and then took the car keys. The keys went to her husband’s 2011 Hyundai Equus that was in the parking lot.

They came into the Lord’s house and came in here and stole stuff out of the Lord’s house and then they stole the pastor’s car. So they’re going to get a double dose,” said Mrs. McDonald.

Rev. McDonald has been a preacher for more than 40 years. He said he’s mentored hundreds of children over the years. He said it’s sad to see these young kids going down the wrong path.

“If they don’t stop they’re going to go in someone’s house, they’re going to steal from them, they’re going to carjack someone, and ultimately they’re either going to kill somebody or get killed,” said Rev. McDonald.

Originally posted on FOX5 Atlanta