Antoine Fuqua’s 2018 action-thriller “The Equalizer 2” offered something never seen before – Denzel Washington in a sequel.
The actor has done plenty of remakes, adaptations and films that felt similar to something else, but the follow-up to 2014’s cinematic loose reimagining of the 1980s TV series “The Equalizer” was his first bonafide sequel.
Well it appears he’s sticking with what he knows as the actor, out promoting the Apple TV+ release of Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” confirms to Collider a third one is in the works and could well be his next film:
“They have written the third Equalizer, so I’m scheduled to do that. So I gotta get in shape and start beating people up again. I get to beat people up again. The tragedy of Macbeth and then going and beating some people up. Can’t get any better, right?”
In the films Washington plays Robert McCall, a former Marine who cuts a violent path through those doing injustice – Russian mobsters in the first, and his former squadmates turned mercenaries in the second.
The outlet indicates that Fuqua is currently in talks to direct the third film with negotiations ongoing, though there isn’t expected to be any issues and he’ll likely jump to it once he wraps the Will Smith-led “Emancipation” for the Apple TV+ service.
Both previous films cost in the $60-70 million range to produce and generated $190 million each at the box-office along with being solid home video hits. Reviews were generally mixed for both.
