![]() ![]() The original Equalizer movie, which debuted in the fall of 2014, fared quite well at the box office, taking in $101.5 million domestically and $90.8 million from international markets for a worldwide total of $192.3 million, from just a $55 million budget. The creative team behind the first Equalizer movie remains intact, though, with Antoine Fuqua returning to direct from a script by Richard Wenk, based on characters created by Michael Sloan and Richard Lindheim, who created the original TV series. Chloe Moretz, who played the young Teri in the original movie, will not be returning for the sequel. Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, but how far will he go when that is someone he loves? Pedro Pascal of Narcos and Game of Thrones fame joins the cast as the new villain, with Melissa Leo and Bill Pullman reprising their roles from the first movie as Susan and Brian Plummer. As you can see in this new footage, McCall is back with a vengeance, and this time around, he has some new enemies.ĭenzel Washington returns to one of his signature roles in the first sequel of his career. Denzel Washington returns to reprise his role as Robert McCall from the original movie, which itself was a theatrical remake of the 1980s hit TV series starring Edward Woodward. Despite his trashy trappings, there’s no one cooler to watch in action.Sony Pictures has released the first trailer for The Equalizer 2, the long-awaited follow-up to 2014's The Equalizer, which hits theaters this summer. The Equalizer 2 feels uneven and off balance. Whatever his reasons, the star brings a humanity and a resonant dramatic force to the role of McCall that the movie he’s in can’t hope to match. He has publicly stated he was once in that position himself and got help. Yet the question persists: Why would a quality actor like Washington (who just gave a titanic performance on Broadway in Eugene O’Neill’s classic The Iceman Cometh) waste his time with B-movie bang-bang? You could theorize that this son of a Pentecostal preacher identifies with these Equalizer stories about young people in danger of falling through the cracks of society. It’s just the moral issues that go begging. Cue the expertly choreographed bloodbath. This all leads to a ultra-violent shootout with the bad guys (and a kidnapped Miles) during a raging storm near the beach house McCall one shared with his wife. ![]() For info, he reconnects with intelligence buddy Dave York (Pedro Pascal) who thinks our man has been dead all these years. Then something happens to her in Paris that gets McCall’s blood up. He gets distracted by a visit from his former Agency handler Susan Plummer (Melissa Leo), who still cares about him. McCall, the ultimate father figure, is not going to let that happen. Remember last time when McCall pulverized the Russian pimp population to save a teen hooker named Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz)? Now he switches focus to Miles ( Moonlight‘s excellent Ashton Sanders), an African-American art student who’s letting his ambition slide to hang with junkies and gangbangers. Bet on this fixer, who lives to help the helpless, to equalize the bastards. There an opening scene on a train in Turkey in which the hero makes mincemeat of baby traffickers who’ve stolen a infant from her American mother. Yes, Richard Wenk’s threadbare script still insists on showing us McCall dispatch a few baddies just to give us a taste of his MO. And with no need to lay the groundwork for the character like the first time, the sequel is faster on its feet than before. With the return of director Antoine Fuqua ( Training Day), the sequel to the original 2014 thriller gives Washington a trusted collaborator. You’re probably thinking, isn’t the two-time Oscar winner punching below his weight in a vigilante movie? Yes. Edward Woodward, who starred in the 1980s series on which The Equalizer is based, never got to lay on rough, R-rated justice like Denzel does. His cover last time was a job at Home Depot, but the Lyft gig gives him access to the worst of people. Washington’s character, Robert McCall is still a retired special-ops agent hellbent on equalizing the criminal scum he encounters on his watch. But in The Equalizer 2 – the first sequel ever in the 63-year-old star’s career – the actor gets behind the wheel and picks up customers in the Boston area. Denzel Washington playing a Lyft driver? No one could have predicted that casting choice. ![]()
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