He moved to directing movies in the year 1998. In 1998, he directed an action movie named as “The Replacement Killers”. In the year 2001, he directed the movie “Training Day”. He is still best known for this movie and the artist “Denzel Washington” also won an Oscar for the same. Then he directed some more of the action drama. In 2003, he directed the movie “Tears of the Sun”. Then, in 2004, he directed the movie “King Arthur” which is considered to be an Arthurian legend film. In 2007, he directed the movie “Shooter” which was an action thriller consisted of conspiracy. The he directed “Brooklyn’s Finest” which came in the year 2010. In the years 2013 and 2014, he directed the movies “Olympus has fallen” and “The Equalizer”. Denzel Washington was seen in the movie “The Equalizer”. In the year 2015, he directed a drama based on sports named as “Southpaw”. He is all set to direct the movie “The Magnificent Seven” in the year 2016. This movie will be a remake of the movie from 1960 and also the movie named as “Seven Samurai”. Denzel Washington will be seen in this movie. Hence, this makes it their 3rd project together. He has also created a documentary on “Suge Knight”. He is the co-creator of the mini-series of the comic book “After Dark”. This was written by Peter Milligan. He was supposed to direct the movie “Prisoners”. However, it did not materialize as he was busy with some other projects. He was hired by CBS Films in the year 2010 for directing a movie named as “Consent to kill” which was based on a novel of Vince Flynn. He was hired by 20th Century Fox in the year 2014 to direct a movie based on drug smuggling. He signed a project in the year 2011 to direct a romantic love story named as “Tang dynasty” based on the love story of Consort Yang Yuhuan and Emperor Xuanzong. IN 2013, he stated that they are waiting for the film to go through the Chinese government before directing.

It is believed that he earns a handsome salary which makes his net worth to be nearly $18 million. In the year 1998, he proposed his girlfriend Lela Rochon and the couple got married in the year 1999. His wife is an actress. They have 2 kids together: Asia and Brando. He also has a son from his earlier relationship. The couple is rumored to be going through a rough time in the relationship. It is said that they are together only for the sake of their kids. His biography is present on all the major websites.