At this year's San Diego Comic-Con, Collider's Steve Weintraub invited two of Hollywood's beloved filmmakers for our "Directors on Directing" panel in Hall H. We hosted Antoine Fuqua, who's helmed dramas and action movies like Training Day, The Equalizer trilogy, Emancipation, and Southpaw, and uses violence as a love language, as well as Roland Emmerich, the master of disaster with features like Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and Godzilla.
Our panel offered con-goers the opportunity to enjoy a conversation between two creatives sharing their thoughts on the industry today—how it's evolved, new technologies, including AI as a tool in moviemaking, their thoughts on test screenings and editing, working with actors, and other directors. For these panels, we reach out to others in the industry for questions, so colleagues like Jon Watts (Spider-Man: Far From Home), Louis Leterrier (Fast X), Robert Kirkman (creator of The Walking Dead), and Josh Brolin (Dune) all make an appearance with some hard-hitting Q's.
Check out the full conversation in the video above or the transcript below, where Fuqua and Emmerich discuss some surprising high and low test screenings, how they felt about 2013's Battle of the White Houses (Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down), challenging movie sets that nearly ended their careers, rocky working relationships with filmmakers like James Cameron and Mel Gibson, surreal, dream-like experiences with artists like Prince, and so much more.
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