![]() ![]() ![]() Because you want to get it right and I’d want to make it as truthful and as authentic as I can. For me as a director, doing a film about slavery is daunting. So, yeah, it was pretty amazing.ĭEADLINE: What were some of the things that resonated, that hit you when you read the script and signed on to do it will Will Smith way back when?įUQUA: One thing, when I first read the script, I was inspired. We had a great conversation about the subject matter that was important to them. #WOW 1 12 1 REPACK TRAILER MOVIE#To watch people react, gasping, talking and commenting on things that were happening in the film, really all the things you hope your movie would do for an audience. This was really our first time experiencing it with a complete film and an audience. ![]() Here, Fuqua describes the steps that were taken in figuring out the release of the film, the adversity in its making, and his hopes for the film.ĭEADLINE: How’d it feel to finally show Emancipation to an audience that really cares about the central historical issues in the film?ĪNTOINE FUQUA: It felt incredible. It has been buzzed about for a while that Emancipation is the best film he has made in a long career, but that his Oscar hopes could be dashed by The Slap, much the way that Mel Gibson’s terrific survival tale Apocalypto did years ago. They have stepped up.ĭeadline reveals here the first trailer for the film (watch it above), along with the first interview with Fuqua. There is good reason to but Emancipation out now, possible backlash be damned. Will Smith Thriller 'Emancipation' Gets First Screening In DC: Apple, NAACP Host At Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Legislative Conference First Reactions Roll In On Antoine Fuqua FilmĪpple heads Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht are coming off the first streamer Best Picture win on CODA, and they knew another awards-caliber film The Killers of the Flower Moon would not be ready this year, and was moving to a 2023 Cannes Film Festival premiere. Smith, who shortly after won the Best Actor Oscar, and while the Academy allowed him an acceptance speech, it subsequently banned Smith for a decade for a terrible personal act in the worst possible venue. There has been much speculation - and erroneous reporting - as Apple and its filmmakers plotted just what to do with a meaningful film whose status as an awards-season frontrunner changed the moment Smith slapped presenter Chris Rock during the last Oscars, after the comic disparaged his wife with a joke about her hair. This follows the film’s first showing in DC on Saturday, with star Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua (who flew in from Italy, where he and Denzel Washington are shooting a third Equalizer film) discussed the fact-based film in a screening orchestrated by Apple and NAACP during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Legislative Conference. Apple Original Films has dated the run-from-slavery thriller Emancipationfor a December 2 theatrical opening, followed by a December 9 release on its Apple TV+ streaming site. ![]()
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