THR reports IM Global has picked up the rights to Jeff Hobbs' book with the super long title, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League, for Fuqua to direct. The film is based on the true story of Robert Peace and it's a timely, topical story dealing with race, social class, and more. Peace was "a young African-American man who left the crime-ridden streets of Newark to attend Yale. There, he studied molecular biochemistry and biophysics and excelled at school, but the troubles from his upbringing continued to plague him until his violent and all-too-soon end." Hobbs has a personal connection to the story as Peace's college roommate and close friend.
When this would shoot is anybody's guess. Fuqua will likely be involved in a sequel to The Equalizer, and he's also got the drug smuggling film Narco Sub and a remake of The Magnificent Seven which would reteam him with Denzel Washington.
