Antoine Fuqua in foretells helm 'Hunter Killer'

With multiple movies in development. Antoine Fuqua is hardly hard-up for work, but he's still looking for a greenlight which has evaded him so far. The "Brooklyn's Finest" director might be a measure nearer to finding his next feature project, as he's in final discussions to accept helm of Relativity Media's "Hunter Killer."In line with the novel "Firing Point" by George Wallace and Don Keith, story follows an untested submarine captain who must make use of a Navy SEAL team to save Russia's leader, taken prisoner throughout a military coup. The 2 sides synergy to prevent a rogue Russian general from stimulating World War III. Script was compiled by Jamie Moss, John Kolvenbach and Arne Schmidt.Original Film's Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe are creating with Relativity Boss Ryan Kavanaugh. Relativity's Tucker Tooley assists as professional produce the pic, that is specific to begin production this winter. Fuqua might be probably the most searched for-after company directors in Hollywood but his projects keep stalling out. He'd been looking to start production around the Eminem-brought boxing movie "Southpaw" in The month of january, but DreamWorks drawn the plug around the picture in August, and also the filmmakers have reached the entire process of shopping the project with other galleries. Helmer was designed to spend the summer time shooting Morgan Creek's Tupac Shakur biopic but that film still has not found its lead, and Fuqua is no more mounted on direct. In This summer, Fuqua signed onto direct an adaptation of John Huddy's non-fiction book "Storming Vegas" for Summit Entertainment, that also courted him to direct its jailbreak drama "The Tomb." He seemed to be within the mix to direct both "Wolverine" follow up and "Die Hard 5" for twentieth century Fox, but lost individuals high-profile gigs to James Mangold and John Moore, correspondingly.In November 2010, Fuqua started settling to direct the comic adaptation "Afterburn" for Relativity, though there has not been any movement around the project since that time. Most lately, CAA-repped Fuqua signed onto direct an element-length documentary about Dying Row Records co-founder Suge Dark night for Showtime. Contact Shaun Sneider at shaun.sneider@variety.com