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Antoine Fuqua and Jerry Bruckheimer Team to Bring "Training Day" TV Series to CBS

Training Day TV Show CBS
Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke in original “Training Day” (Photo: COURTESY OF WARNER BROS.)

According to Variety.com, CBS is producing a pilot based on the 2001 movie “Training Day,” which starred Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke, and for which Washington won an Academy Award for Best Actor.  The television adaptation is set in the present-day Los Angeles Police Department, with the series picking up 15 years after the events of the Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures film.
The original “Training Day” movie director Antoine Fuqua is attached as director and executive producer for the series, and has teamed up with producer Jerry Bruckheimer  for the reboot.  Will Beall (“Gangster Squad,” “Castle”), a former LAPD detective, will write the pilot script, also serving as an executive producer.
“Training Day” followed a rookie cop (played by Hawke) who was paired with a rogue detective (Washington) on his first day on the job as a Los Angeles narcotics officer.
The television project will be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Television, Fuqua Films and Warner Bros. TV for CBS.
article by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (follow @lakinhutcherson)

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  1. jsbnew jsbnew August 14, 2015

    Is Antoine Fuqua related to Harvey Fuqua of the Moonglows? And Amirita Fuqua formerly of Chicago? Just wondering…

    • goodblacknews goodblacknews August 15, 2015

      Hi! Antoine Fuqua is related to Harvey Fuqua – he’s his nephew! Not sure about Amirita, but it isn’t a very common surname, so probably so…

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