Antoine Fuqua Interview by Martyn Palmer When Antoine Fuqua was growing up in Pittsburgh watching movies was the purest, easiest and best form of escapism for a youngster with a highly active imagination. To put it simply, he loved them. And one day, he hoped to make them himself. Antoine remembers watching as many as he could at the local cinema, but often he would find them television late at night. and it didn't really matter what genre they were  - cop films, action, adventure, romances, he would watch them all. And in particular, he remembers watching many - including John Boorman's Excalibur - that featured the legend of King Arthur - a mythical tale from half a world away and a thousand years ago. “It's funny because people talk to me about King Arthur and coming from where I from how does it relate to me?” he says. “But growing up in small neighbourhoods - I'm not going to call it a ghetto - that's all you have. “You go home and you watch TV in the middle of the night and King Arthur comes on and that's how you escape. And, you know, it teaches you a little bit about honour and the myth and it makes you dream a little bit more, you know. “I remember watching Excalibur, John Boorman's film, growing up and I loved it. Lying on your bed on a Sunday watching films like that on television and it teaches you a little bit about chivalry and dignity and honour. And that's the  sort of thing you don't always get on the street. But that kind of escapism in film was a big part of my life.” The youngster watching those movies back then - some twenty years ago - couldn't have dreamed that one day, he'd be making his very own version of that incredibly enduring legend. And with the greatest respect to those films that have gone before, Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur is going to be very, very different to what we have come to expect. Stand by to enter a very brutal, very real world. We back in the Dark Ages where, according to new research, the reality of the Arthurian legend might actually be. Writer David Franzoni (Gladiator) has unearthed a details of a Roman general, Lucius Artorius Castus, who was based in Britain towards the end of the Roman rule of the island. Artorius was in command of an elite group of Sarmation Knights, horsemen from eastern Europe (today it would be part of Russia) who reluctantly have to serve the Romans as a debt of honour passed down the generations. Next		Home Interviews Antoine Fuqua Interview King Arthur Interview Arv Grewal Interview Asia Argento Interview Behind the Scenes of "War of the Worlds" Bernie Goldmann Interview Clive Owen Interview Dakota Fanning Interview Dennis Hopper Interview George A Romero Interview Greg Nicotero Interview The Hulk Press Conference Ang Lee Press Conference Ioan Gruffudd Interview John Leguizamo Interview Kathleen Kennedy Interview Keira Knightley Interview